Specsavers hosted a powerful breakout session at this year’s Care Closer to Home Conference, bringing together leaders from primary care to challenge current system design and make the case for a truly integrated, community based model of care.
Improve access to audiology community services, parliamentarians urged
Gordon Harrison, Specsavers’ Chief Audiologist, spoke about the benefits of local hearing care at the launch of Tinnitus UK’s latest research report in Parliament.
Eye health sector urged to back parliamentary glaucoma proposals
Specsavers welcomes proposals to require DHSC to direct ICBs to commission uniform glaucoma services delivered by qualified community optometrists.
Eye and hearing health clinic in Parliament
Community optometrists and audiologists staffed the drop-in clinic, using an OCT machine, a virtual reality headset simulating sight loss, a hearing screener and a digital otoscope.
Understanding drop-free cataract surgery: benefits, risks, and clinical considerations
Benefits, risks and clinical considerations of ‘drop-free’ cataract surgery
Looking to the future of audiology now
Audiologist Sonam Sehemby looks back at Specsavers Professional Advancement Conference 2025, which was open to all clinicians and dedicated to professional growth, clinical innovation, and shared purpose.
Eye and hearing health championed at party conferences
Specsavers is highlighting the role of community optics and audiology at the Liberal Democrat, Labour and Conservative conferences – including joining forces with Glaucoma UK.
Community optometry and audiology well placed to support NHS shift
Health and Social Care Secretary Wes Streeting has signalled a shift for the NHS, moving from hospital-based care to high street services.
Running for a friend: optometrist’s inspiring marathon
Optometrist Dr Ian Beasley is running for a cause close to his heart. Raising money for the Samaritans in memory of his close friend Phil Dale.
Event puts eye health care for people experiencing homelessness in focus
CARLA Denyer, MP for Bristol Central and Co-leader of the Green Party, joined senior leaders from the optical sector, services and charities, plus people with lived experience of homelessness to discuss the barriers that people currently experiencing homelessness face in accessing healthcare, on Thursday 17 April at the Mercure Hotel, Bristol Central.
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