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On a typical Wellington spring day, the second Hospital Optometrist Peer-Support (HOPS) conference got underway at the Rydges Airport Hotel, with the region’s well known winds, fortunately, not causin
On a gorgeous spring day in Wellington, 30 hospital-based optometrists from around the country got together to mingle and pick each other’s brains. The New Zealand Association of Optometrists’ (NZAO) inaugural New Zealand hospital optometrist peer-support (HOPS) conference was an opportunity for all
As a hospital-based optometrist, I was very excited to hear of the recent Optometrists and Dispensing Opticians Board’s decision to approve a new scope of practice for hospital-based optometrists in ophthalmic laser surgery and its associated prescribing qualification. This is a major milestone for
A common incidental clinical finding among optometrists is ‘narrow angles'. That worryingly thin black space on Van Herick assessment alerts us to dust off our gonioscopy lens and perhaps look for some more benoxinate. Management would be straightforward if all the clinical signs showed an eye in tr
Over two wonderfully sunny October days we were finally able to hold our 90th New Zealand Association of Optometrists (NZAO) conference at the Beehive in Wellington. Having already postponed our 2020 conference due to Covid-19, the most recent lockdowns in Auckland and Hamilton meant many of our mem