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Discover our extensive learning hub crafted for optics and audiology professionals. Spectrum supports your professional growth with a wealth of resources, including diverse topics, recent news, real-life case studies, and expert insights in eye and hearing care.

Elevate your learning

Discover our extensive learning hub crafted for optometry and audiology professionals. Spectrum supports your professional growth with a wealth of resources, including diverse topics, real-life case studies, detailed guides, and expert insights in eye and hearcare.

Expanding community eye and hearing care would improve access to care – AND save the UK £2.91bn a year by 2040
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Expanding community eye and hearing care would improve access to care – AND save the UK £2.91bn a year by 2040

Greater use of community eye and hearing care services could save the UK £2.91 billion annually by 2040, a sum equivalent to the cost of 70 million GP appointments, according to a new report.
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News

Building the expert workforce to meet patient need for eye care

Building the expert workforce to meet patient need for eye care

Investment in the community eye workforce is vital to meet patient need, notes Specsavers 2026 Access to care report.
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Paul Morris, Specsavers director of professional advancement

Devolved nations show path for England on community eye care access

Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland are providing invaluable examples of how to make fuller use of community optometry – that England can draw upon, according to Specsavers 2026 access to care report.
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100 years of the dispensing profession celebrated at PAC 2026

100 years of the dispensing profession celebrated at PAC 2026

GENERAL NEWS
100 years of the dispensing profession Specsavers PAC 2026 will celebrate the centenary of the dispensing profession with a dedicated programme recognising the contribution dispensing opticians have made to eye care over the last 100
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CPD

PAC 2026 – Audiology keynote speakers announced

PAC 2026 – Audiology keynote speakers announced

AUDIOLOGY NEWS
Professor Gaby Saunders, Director of the Manchester Centre for Audiology and Deafness (ManCAD) and a leading expert in hearing health and rehabilitation, will deliver the opening audiology keynote at this year’s Specsavers Professional Advancement Conference (PAC) on Sunday 13 September.
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CPD webinar helps audiology professionals embed sustainability into everyday clinical practice

CPD webinar helps audiology professionals embed sustainability into everyday clinical practice

AUDIOLOGY NEWS
Audiology professionals across the UK and Ireland are invited to join a new online CPD webinar exploring how sustainability can be integrated into hearing care – without compromising clinical outcomes. Taking place 08:25-09:00 BST on Wednesday 10 June 2026, “Hearing
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Hearing performance and acoustics with Sonova

Hearing performance and acoustics with Sonova

Audiology: WEBINAR
We explore agreed needs, shared decision making, patient engagement and using feedback loops in the development of IMPs with patients.
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