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Despite $3.44 billion for hospital and specialty services, $2.12bn for primary care and public health, a budget boost of $1.77bn over four years for Pharmac, plus tax relief for inflation-hit business
Ophthalmologist Dr Sarah Crowe is the power-house behind OOXii, a charity empowering non-optometrists to refract and supply spectacles in remote regions.
A mobile air-sterilisation unit which allows cataract surgery to be performed in an office will help relieve some of the pressure on New Zealand’s hospitals, said supplier Medix21’s Camille Furnandiz.
Since 2018, Trevor Plumbly has penned humorous and heartwarming insights for NZ Optics on how retinitis pigmentosa (RP) has impacted his life. Although he says he’s no fan of the term ‘journey’, his h
The Auckland hospital is offering optoms and students the opportunity to observe eyecare to fund its team's CPD.
May’s RANZCO NZ Branch 2024 Annual Scientific Meeting, themed 'Challenges, controversies and change', promises an exciting educational programme focusing on cataract, glaucoma, oculoplastics and aesth
Following the ODOB's targeted consultation in 2023 on extending hospital optometrists’ scope of practice to include intravitreal injections, the NZAO has agreed to progress the scope expansion and required training programme.
The UK’s Association of Optometrists (AOP) has welcomed the British Labour Party’s commitment to working with primary care optometry to reduce hospital waiting times if it is elected as the next government.
Aspen Pharmacare’s Eikance 0.01% atropine drops have been approved by Medsafe and will be available via prescription from pharmacies in New Zealand from the end of June 2024.
The University of Canberra and Canberra Health Services have signed a memorandum of understanding extending Canberra Hospital Eye Department’s student-led optometry clinic.
Given today’s technological capabilities, we should be able to access all our own health data on our phones and share it with whoever we need to, countrywide or internationally,” says Peter Jordan, secretary and past chair of the New Zealand branch of Health Level Seven International (HL7), a global
As New Zealand’s previous sources of povidone iodine 5% dry up, local supplier Medix21 has stepped in to find an alternative source to meet the country’s increasing needs.