News & Views

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

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 responded to the government's 10 Year Health Plan for England, which was published today.

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

A research team from Moorfields, led by Mr Harry Petrushkin, has launched a new national study through the British Ophthalmological Surveillance Unit (BOSU) into ocular hypotony, a sight-threatening condition where the pressure inside the eye is low enough for long enough to cause permanent structural changes and vision loss.

The College has pledged its commitment to the #SASsix campaign, a national initiative aimed at supporting specialist, associate specialist and specialty (SAS) doctors to develop within their careers and become leaders and educators. SAS doctors and locally employed doctors (LEDs) are the most rapidly rising group of doctors on the medical register.