News & Views

Beth Barnes, the College’s Director of Quality Improvement and Research, presents her thoughts on an event to guide NHS professionals through the new treatment pathway for wet AMD.

The College has announced its support for the UK National Eye Health and Hearing Study (UKNEHS), a major public health initiative aiming to assess the prevalence and causes of vision and hearing impairment in adults aged 50 and over across the UK.

Read our latest policy roundup, a series of advocacy updates on our most recent policy and public affairs activities and successes.

Our statement on our actions following disruption to the June sitting of the Part 2 FRCOphth Written Examination as a result of an external technical issue.

The College has expressed support for the urgent call for coordinated action to address the decline in clinically trained research staff, which was made in the Medical Research Council’s (MRC) recently published report “Clinical Researchers in the United Kingdom: Reversing the Decline”. We believe this is critically important for the future of UK healthcare and biomedical innovation.

Read our latest policy roundup, a series of advocacy updates on our most recent policy and public affairs activities and successes.

This year, for the first time ever, the College has awarded four Honorary Fellowships. The accolade, which is the highest honour the College can bestow, recognises people who have made a significant contribution to ophthalmology. 

We are leading an urgent joint call for the national standardisation of electronic health records (EHRs) in eye care, which we believe is essential to improve services, outcomes and patient experience.

Surgical outcomes from cataract operations have consistently improved over the past decade, results from the latest national ophthalmology database (NOD) cataract audit demonstrate.

College President Professor Ben Burton has commented on the Waiting List Minimum Data Set (WLMDS) Information, which NHS England published this week.