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.
176 articles
An independent inquiry into the workplace culture at Blind and Low Vision New Zealand (BLVNZ), found an already poor culture was made worse by the transformation work initiated in 2019, but is now improving thanks to organisational and policy change.
A former dispensing optician, Juliet Ware is Auckland’s only ophthalmic electrodiagnostic technician working in the public healthcare setting. She is based in Greenlane Clinical Centre’s ophthalmology
Live from Specsavers headquarters in Port Douglas, Melbourne, SCC 2022 focused on the frontiers between optometry and ophthalmology and how a collaborative approach can improve eye health outcomes and help relieve a system under pressure.
A year has passed since New Zealand’s Ministry of Social Development (MSD) extended its Flexi-wage scheme to include support for jobseekers training to become qualified dispensing opticians (DOs). However, at the time of writing, not a single candidate has been hired as a DO nor trained through the
After a long hiatus of in-person optometry education, it was nice to physically attend Retina Specialists’ winter seminar at the Foundation on George in Parnell, Auckland, and looking around the room, it was clear I wasn’t the only one feeling a little excited about this return to normality.
New Zealand’s first optometry salary report found that despite a relatively high starting point, the profession’s pay increase is slow, often failing to reach peak earning potential. Part of the recent Optometry Workforce Survey conducted by Robert Ng and Dr Renita Martis from the School of Optometr
Much of the success of healthcare provision is dependent on the quality of the interactions between health professionals and patients. Health communication researcher Associate Professor Maria Stubbe from the University of Otago specialises in interactional sociolinguistics and says eyecare professi
Two years since its strategic focus shift, Blind Low Vision New Zealand’s (BLVNZ’s) widened support criteria are making a difference, ensuring more vison-troubled Kiwis receive help, sooner.
The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Ophthalmologists (RANZCO) and Kāpo Māori Aotearoa (KMA) have signed a tatou pounamu (memorandum of understanding) to improve the future of Māori eye health in Aotearoa.
Three Kiwi optometrists who trialled Alcon’s new toric contact lenses – Dailies Total 1 for Astigmatism and Precision 1 for Astigmatism – said the lenses did not disappoint.
Researchers from the University of Auckland have been awarded a $1.2million project grant from the Health Research Council (HRC) to conduct New Zealand’s first population-based eye, ear and foot health survey to plug the evidence gap and improve equitable access to health services.
Doctors are a key part of the medical community and should lead the decarbonisation of healthcare and advocate for sustainability, according to Dr Jesse Gale, chair of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Ophthalmology’s (RANZCO’s) sustainability committee. Sharing this view online at RAN
