Generous gifts to improve equity
The University of Auckland School of Optometry and Vision Science’s (SOVS’) Community Spectacle Scheme has received two significant donations, ensuring more New Zealanders can access glasses.
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Susanne BradleyNZ Optics
NZ Optics
A Senior reporter at NZ Optics. With nearly 10 years at NZ Optics, Susanne has gained an in-depth knowledge and understanding of eye health and the optics industry in New Zealand.
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Joining forces for the love of eyes
The umbrella group for New Zealand’s eye health organisations, Eye Health Aotearoa (EHA) has partnered with the International Agency for the Prevention for Blindness (IAPB) to help raise awareness and advocate for equitable and accessible eye health.
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Door-knock study uncovers unmet needs
Auckland University researchers have conducted a pilot eye health survey and community eye exams in east-central Auckland, uncovering significant unmet need and serious eye disorders, including retinal tears and severe cataracts.
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SCC 2021: Come join the waka
Insights into Māori traditions, cultural practice and business values were delightfully served up with a healthy side of primary angle closure at Specsavers’ SCC 2021 live event at the Sofitel Hotel in Auckland’s Viaduct Harbour.
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Plea for UV protection education
Cancer Society New Zealand is highlighting optometrists and dispensing opticians’ crucial role in increasing awareness of UV protection for our eyes ahead of the 2021 summer season, and is encouraging all eyecare professionals to discuss how best to do this with their patients.
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All aboard for collaborative care!
Eye Surgery Associates’ latest evening seminar at Auckland’s Tamaki Yacht Club drew a large group of optometrists who gathered together over dinner to hear guest speaker, entrepreneurial Waikato ophthalmologist Dr James McKelvie.
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Pop-up vision screening
A team of Waikato eyecare professionals is running pop-up vision screening clinics at local Covid-vaccination centres, screening patients while they wait for their jab.
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Amniotic membrane for optometrists
In response to enquiries, New Zealand’s Optometrists and Dispensing Opticians Board (ODOB) has confirmed that using amniotic membranes (AM) for patient care is within an optometrists’ scope of
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Full house for EI seminar
Eye Institute’s first Auckland optometry evening seminar for 2021 attracted more than 170 eyecare professionals to the Orakei Bay conference centre in early May, and they clearly enjoyed the opportunity to catch up in person while picking up some valuable CPD points.
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Māori support for low vision Māori
New Zealand eyecare practitioners (ECPs) can now refer patients who need access to low-vision services and identify as Māori directly to Kāpō Māori Aotearoa.
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Global call for action on preventable blindness
A new report commissioned by The Lancet Global Health, co-authored by Associate Professor Jacqueline Ramke from the School of Optometry and Vision Science at Auckland University, highlights the worldwide prevalence and causes of blindness and vision impairment, and calls on governments to act to imp
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GNZ – looking ahead
NZ Optics caught up with Pippa Martin, general manager for Glaucoma New Zealand (GNZ), one drizzly Auckland morning to find out more about what’s in the pipeline for 2021.
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