Optician articles from March 2005

Optician archives from March 2005

Exhibition space still available.
March 4, 2005... Optrafair is now close to being fully booked with most of the space allocated. However, show organiser the FMO stressed that any additional exhibitors could be accommodated. Malcolm Polley, FMO chairman, said this year's show surpassed the...

Presbyopia and ; contact lenses.
March 4, 2005... Part 3 - RGP lens fitting in presbyopes In the final part of this series on presbyopia and contact lenses, Jonathan Walker describes the use of rigid gas-permeable lenses (CET module C273) If we believe demographic studies, in 2002...

Dispensing down a wire.(Directory)
March 4, 2005... Glasses Direct may be catching all the headlines but there are plenty of other virtual dispensers doing much the same thing. Rob Moss looks at what each has to offer Ten minutes typing 'cheap glasses' and similar phrases into Google last...

Ida Mann; (1893-1983).(Biography)
March 4, 2005... Tim Bowden and Andrew Gasson continue their series describing the life and work of most of the scientists and clinicians who have helped to develop contact lenses Ida Caroline Mann studied at the London School for Medicine for Women and at...

Preparing for tomorrow.
March 4, 2005... As it gears up for the introduction of statutory CET, the profession is faced with selecting from among the wide range of CET opportunities available. This year, the College's annual conference, Optometry Tomorrow 2005, has been designed to...

Why wear contact lenses?
March 4, 2005... Next month optician begins a CET series looking at the influences on compliance among contact lens wearers. In advance of this, Bill Harvey encourages practitioners to take a proactive approach to educating patients on contact lens wear ...

Retirement at Batemans.(appointments in eyewear industry)
March 4, 2005... John Thompson, professional services director at the GC Bateman Group, has retired after 36 years with the family-owned company. To celebrate, Thompson and his wife, Sue, the daughter of the late David Bateman, joined fellow directors at a...

The Direct challenge.(opticians' prescription )
March 4, 2005... Last summer a rare thing happened to the optical profession. An outsider came along and told it that the way it sold glasses was wrong. What's more the popular media agreed. James Murray Wells tells Rob Moss why his company Glasses Direct is...

Medical Contact Lens Practice.(Book Review)
March 4, 2005... Dr Sandip Doshi reviews Elisabeth Millis' book, Medical Contact Lens Practice, published at the end of last year Making the transition from routine contact lens fittings to being involved in the management of a medical condition with...

Nikon's fast fade.
March 4, 2005... The Nikon NL4-AS Transitions V single-vision lens is a thin, 1.67 index lens with the new Transitions V technology offering faster fade back, according to Nikon Optical UK. The lens, which benefits from easy-clean HCC Nikon coating and the...

John Hogarth.(Association of British Dispensing Opticians )
March 4, 2005... Conlons Opticians' dispensing optician John Hogarth has died. He was 54. John started his optical career in November 1975, writes John Welsby, Conlons managing director, when he trained to become a dispensing optician with Gledhills in...

Duped lover wins case.
March 4, 2005... A West Midlands optometrist has won a court case against a lover who could have cost him [pounds sterling]26,000. Martin Shaw met Helena Kisiel through a dating agency in 1998 - the same year he lost his sister to ovarian cancer, reported the...

Talk of deregulation wrong, says Buckley.(Roger Buckley)(contact lenses regulations)
March 4, 2005... Discussion in the profession of 'deregulation' of contact lens sales is misplaced, one figure closely involved in the GOC's bid for legislative change has said. Professor Roger Buckley said he has had conversations related to changes to...

Suppliers' price rises could be good for us.
March 4, 2005... Suppliers who are trading at a loss to the independent sector should be encouraged to increase their prices by the very practitioners they serve. This was one of the ideas put forward at Monday's Sight Care one-day business conference at the...

Top tips for testing.
March 11, 2005... Know the trick to avoid an over-plus by using 0.12D lenses? How about using contact lenses to relax accommodation? Neil Constantine-Smith provides 15 top tips for practice that he's gleaned from peers, pre-regs and supervisors over the years...

Life-threatening conditions - Part 1.
March 11, 2005... In the first of two articles, Nicholas Phelps Brown describes life-threatening conditions which all eye care practitioners need to be aware of Patients occasionally present to the optometrist with life-threatening conditions for which...

HIV and the eye.
March 11, 2005... In the second of this series on systemic disease Dr Iain Phillips provides an up-to-date summary of HIV and reviews the important ophthalmic complications of the disease Human immuno-deficiency virus (HIV) is the causal agent of acquired...

Taking the first steps.
March 11, 2005... optician talks to David Walker, chairman of the SMC Training Committee, about the launch of its Level 2 Certificate in Optical Production Processes Taking the all important first step on the training ladder can be a daunting proposition,...

Dispensing causes of non-tolerance.
March 11, 2005... Jim Farrell discusses five areas of dispensing that can lead to non-tolerance and gives some tips on how to avoid them (CET module C914) The role of the dispensing practitioner is to ensure that the patient is dispensed with an optical...

Automation is key to edging system.
March 11, 2005... Weco's new edging system comprises: Trace 3, Cad 5 and the Edge 455 drill. Trace 3 is designed to simplify handling with automatic frame alignment and clamping with constant pressure at a manageable speed. It provides full 3D tracing while...

Josef Dallos; (1905-1979).(ophthalmologists)(Biography)
March 11, 2005... This year sees the 100th anniversary of the birth of Josef Dallos. Tim Bowden and Andrew Gasson take a brief look at his life and work Josef Dallos was born in Budapest, the son of a head teacher. He qualified as a doctor in 1928 working...

Get Smart with John Richmond.
March 11, 2005... There are 10 limited edition John Richmond Smart Roadsters to be won by European clients of the John Richmond eyewear brand manufactured and distributed by Italian company Allison. All practitioners have to do is purchase a minimum number of...

Vision 2005 ; Plan your attendance.(the world's largest conference on sight loss)
March 11, 2005... As this major conference hosted by the Royal National Institute of the Blind draws nearer, optician selects a few highlights of the extensive programme Vision 2005 is the world's largest conference on sight loss. As such it should be of...

The age-related macular disease eye care pathway.
March 18, 2005... Bill Harvey takes a look at the aims of the proposed pathway for improved service to those found to have the most common cause of registerable sight loss in the UK Approximately 70 per cent of people included on the blind and partial sight...

George Nissel; (1913-1982).(Biography)
March 18, 2005... George Nissel was born in Transylvania and studied engineering in Czechoslovakia. He first became aware of contact lenses because of his sister's connection with Josef Dallos (optician, March 11) and first saw Istvan Rakos, a dental...

Raising awareness of macular degeneration.
March 18, 2005... Tom Bremridge, chief executive of the Macular Disease Society, describes the work of the charity which represents the largest patient group for visually impaired people In 1987 a newly diagnosed macular patient, Elizabeth Thomas, was...

Opticians Act reform clears the final hurdle.
March 18, 2005... After years of review, committee meetings and consultation, the GOC's long-awaited batch of legislative changes appears to have crossed the final hurdle and is in sight of the finishing line. Following last week's debate in the House of Lords...

AMD risk factors ; and management.(Age-related Macular Degeneration )
March 18, 2005... In the third of our eye care pathway-related CET articles, Dr Frank Eperjesi and Hannah Bartlett describe the various risk factors, some controllable, for this common eye disease. CET module C981 Age-related macular disease is the leading...

Woolcott offers rimless service.
March 18, 2005... In response to an increased demand for high-quality rimless glazing, Rich Woolcott, who has over 20 years' experience in manufacturing optics, has launched Riviera Rimless Glazing Co in south Devon. 'Having listened to opticians' feedback...

Predicting 'wet' maculopathy.(choroidal neovascular incident )
March 18, 2005... Bill Harvey describes a new instrument designed to allow earlier detection of CNV than is possible with standard optometric techniques One of the key responsibilities for optometrists in primary care is the early detection of macular...

Pre-reg optometrist stole from employer.(Brief Article)
March 18, 2005... An optometrist who stole more than [pounds sterling]800 from her employer has been found guilty of serious professional misconduct. However, the disciplinary committee of the GOC who came to the verdict decided to take no further action against...