With opticians in England, Wales and Northern Ireland now allowed to offer a full range of services, including routine eye testing, people are being urged to prioritise their eye health this Glaucoma Awareness Week (29 | more
Newmedica eye health clinics reopen
Newmedica’s eye health clinics have opened to restart treatment for patients already in their care as well as receive new referrals from optometrists and GPs whose patients have experienced recent problems or a sudden drop in vision | more
‘Don’t let glaucoma stop you’ says CLO with the disease
Pragna Raghwani, contact lens optician and director of Specsavers in Barnet shares her experience of her own eye disease this World Glaucoma Week. In 2010, after seven years of owning a Specsavers store, Pragna had some blurriness in her peripheral vision and immediately | more
Putting sight in the driver’s seat this Road Safety Week
The CEO of the Road Haulage Association has teamed up with Specsavers and road safety charity Brake to remind drivers of the importance of regular sight tests, after he himself was diagnosed with glaucoma. According | more
Newmedica opens fifth joint venture eye health clinic
A brand-new state-of-the-art eye health clinic and surgical centre has been opened ophthalmology company, Newmedica, in North Ormesby in Teesside. Set up as a Newmedica ophthalmology joint venture partnership with consultant ophthalmologists Qasim Mansoor and | more
Sophie Thompson on children’s eye health
This National Eye Health Week (September 23-29), actress and mother of two, Sophie Thompson, is urging parents not to neglect their children’s eye health. Recent reports also state that 65% of the population are visual | more
Actress Sophie Thompson talks about the importance of eye tests
Actress Sophie Thompson is working with Specsavers to highlight the importance of regular eye tests this National Eye Health Week (September 23-29). It’s an issue close to Sophie’s heart after her grandmother and mum were | more
Chef Rosemary Shrager talks about her own eye health
TV chef Rosemary Shrager has revealed she is ‘extremely worried’ about losing her sight after several close family members went blind due to glaucoma. She is now working with Specsavers to raise awareness of the importance | more
Musician’s early glaucoma diagnosis prevents sight loss
A visit to a Bicester opticians helped ensure 80-year-old Jane Singleton’s sight wasn’t lost to glaucoma. After noticing she was having trouble reading number plates from distance, Fringford resident, Jane made an appointment for an | more
Ross Campbell on glaucoma
Over 700,000 people in the UK1 live with glaucoma, of which an estimated 300,0002 do not know they have the condition. 146,000 people live with sight loss that is severe enough to have a significant impact on | more