News & Views

Read a letter to the profession, signed by the four UK CMOs, Steve Powis, Nikki Kanani, Colin Melville from the GMC and Helen Stokes-Lampard on supporting doctors throughout the pandemic.

COVID-19 has led to a national lockdown in the New Year with increased infection rates putting immense pressure on frontline services which has meant the redeployment of ophthalmic staff, including ophthalmologists in training is already taking place.

In this episode we speak with Kavita Aggarwal, an Ophthalmology Trainee from Oxford. She talks about wellbeing, how to stay healthy during the latest lockdown and provides some top tips on how to avoid burnout.

As we enter into 2021, there is some light of optimism and hope at the end of what has been for many a long dark tunnel.

The College is pleased to announce that an extra date has been added to the Spring 2021 OPT Training The Trainers programme.

Following the publication of the RCOphth recommendations for monitoring in hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine users in 2018, new published evidence prompted a review of the guideline.

In this episode with speak with Melanie Hingorani, a Consultant Ophthalmologist from Moorfields Eye Hospital and the Clinical Lead for the National Outpatient Programme (NOTP) in Ophthalmology.

The Eye to Eye Podcast has been listed as one of Eye News’ top five podcasts for trainees to listen to and had it’s 10, 000th listen.

After a six month break, The British Ophthalmological Surveillance Unit has restarted case ascertainment from November 2020, recommencing the yellow card reporting system with the five studies that were already running.

ACCEA have now confirmed the dates for the 2021 Round. If you are intending to make an application, you are strongly advised to check the ACCEA Nominal Roll to make sure your details are correct.