The OpticianPub Date : 2022-02-01DOI: 10.12968/opti.2022.2.244618
Alec Colson
{"title":"Hiring and firing apprentices is a serious matter","authors":"Alec Colson","doi":"10.12968/opti.2022.2.244618","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12968/opti.2022.2.244618","url":null,"abstract":"Alec Colson advises on contractual issues concerning apprentices.","PeriodicalId":86894,"journal":{"name":"The Optician","volume":"40 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81664924","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The OpticianPub Date : 2022-02-01DOI: 10.12968/opti.2022.2.244080
Mike Hale
{"title":"Dry Eye: Drying times","authors":"Mike Hale","doi":"10.12968/opti.2022.2.244080","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12968/opti.2022.2.244080","url":null,"abstract":"Mike Hale presents some of the devices available to practitioners in the UK for diagnosis and treatment of dry eye.","PeriodicalId":86894,"journal":{"name":"The Optician","volume":"25 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75571276","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The OpticianPub Date : 2022-02-01DOI: 10.12968/opti.2022.2.8876
Neil Retallic, M. Nagra
{"title":"Getting to grips with soft contact lens handling","authors":"Neil Retallic, M. Nagra","doi":"10.12968/opti.2022.2.8876","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12968/opti.2022.2.8876","url":null,"abstract":"Neil Retallic and Dr Manbir Nagra discuss the results of a major survey of patients concerning their challenges in handling soft contact lenses and consider how this may influence our initial instructions to patients to ensure future successful wear.","PeriodicalId":86894,"journal":{"name":"The Optician","volume":"14 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82602974","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The OpticianPub Date : 2022-02-01DOI: 10.12968/opti.2022.2.244237
Yiannis Kotoulas
{"title":"Lenses:Driving on forward","authors":"Yiannis Kotoulas","doi":"10.12968/opti.2022.2.244237","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12968/opti.2022.2.244237","url":null,"abstract":"Yiannis Kotoulas rounds up the industry's specialist driving lenses.","PeriodicalId":86894,"journal":{"name":"The Optician","volume":"11 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82752991","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The OpticianPub Date : 2022-02-01DOI: 10.12968/opti.2022.2.8878
Tallulah Harvey
{"title":"Communicating with the dementia patient","authors":"Tallulah Harvey","doi":"10.12968/opti.2022.2.8878","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12968/opti.2022.2.8878","url":null,"abstract":"Tallulah Harvey discusses the nature of dementia and its impact upon the patient, and how understanding this may help the eye care professional best best communicate with them.","PeriodicalId":86894,"journal":{"name":"The Optician","volume":"263 1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86171914","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The OpticianPub Date : 2022-02-01DOI: 10.12968/opti.2022.2.8884
Michael Johnson
{"title":"Radiofrequency surgery in optometry","authors":"Michael Johnson","doi":"10.12968/opti.2022.2.8884","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12968/opti.2022.2.8884","url":null,"abstract":"Dr Michael Johnson describes a procedure that will allow optometrists to remove benign lid lesions in practice.","PeriodicalId":86894,"journal":{"name":"The Optician","volume":"89 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83448116","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The OpticianPub Date : 2022-02-01DOI: 10.12968/opti.2022.2.244438
Simon Jones
{"title":"In Focus: Membership bodies issue call to action on pilot project","authors":"Simon Jones","doi":"10.12968/opti.2022.2.244438","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12968/opti.2022.2.244438","url":null,"abstract":"Practice teams have been urged to embark on the Optometry First scheme if called upon, to support NHS England's transformation of outpatient care. Simon Jones reports.","PeriodicalId":86894,"journal":{"name":"The Optician","volume":"28 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76741592","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The OpticianPub Date : 2022-02-01DOI: 10.12968/opti.2022.2.8885
Peter Black
{"title":"Dispensing interactive 1","authors":"Peter Black","doi":"10.12968/opti.2022.2.8885","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12968/opti.2022.2.8885","url":null,"abstract":"In the first of a series of interactive exercises aimed at encouraging discussion about dispensing skills, Peter Black describes a case of intolerance to a recently dispensed pair of progressive power lenses.","PeriodicalId":86894,"journal":{"name":"The Optician","volume":"160 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76626590","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The OpticianPub Date : 2022-02-01DOI: 10.12968/opti.2022.2.244620
A. Bernstein
{"title":"Service means business","authors":"A. Bernstein","doi":"10.12968/opti.2022.2.244620","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12968/opti.2022.2.244620","url":null,"abstract":"Adam Bernstein finds that service is key to the independent sector's offering on the high street.","PeriodicalId":86894,"journal":{"name":"The Optician","volume":"140 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74694749","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The OpticianPub Date : 2022-02-01DOI: 10.12968/opti.2022.2.244437
Yiannis Kotoulas
{"title":"In Focus: Industry responds to illegal practice consultation","authors":"Yiannis Kotoulas","doi":"10.12968/opti.2022.2.244437","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12968/opti.2022.2.244437","url":null,"abstract":"Organisations from across the optical sector have responded to the GOC's revised illegal practice protocol. Yiannis Kotoulas consultation.","PeriodicalId":86894,"journal":{"name":"The Optician","volume":"47 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76342459","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}