


NEW ZEALAND’S EYE health organisations, the Optometrists and Dispensing Opticians Board (ODOB), the New Zealand Association of Optometrists (NZAO), Ophthalmology New Zealand (ONZ) and the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Ophthalmologists (RANZCO) have been working tirelessly to advise and

A lighter look from a fictional optometrist’s perspective of the Covid-19 lockdown experience...

A 68-year-old man has been under my care for age-related macular degeneration (AMD). His right eye is under long-term anti-VEGF therapy for wet AMD. He has non-exudative (dry) AMD in his left eye and wanted to know if there was anything he could do to improve the outcome for his left eye. His visual

How can you continue to support your glaucoma patients remotely during a Level 4 or Level 3 lockdown? NZ Optics asked Glaucoma New Zealand (GNZ) chair Professor Helen Danesh-Meyer for some advice. 1.

The Covid-19 pandemic and the Government’s Alert Level 4 lockdown has created a uniquely challenging landscape for employers to navigate. Not only does it present an extremely trying set of commercial

I’m writing this sitting at the dining room table - it’s my “home office”. As I’m the only family member who leaves the house to go to work, I get relegated. “First up, best dressed,” as my mum used

At last, after 4,000 generations of farmers plus one speechwriter, there's someone in our family working in the field of optical dispensing.

This year’s highly successful 37th Cornea and Eye Bank Meeting was held over two stunning summer days at the Hilton Hotel in Auckland overlooking the bustling Waitemata Harbour.

In a very short space of time we have plunged into the unknown. Overnight our daily vocabulary has transformed to include Covid-19, PPE, ‘flattening the curve’, infection spikes, contamination,

This year’s Australia & New Zealand Glaucoma Society (ANZGS) meeting was held in the South Australian city of Adelaide. The magnificent Adelaide Oval Stadium was a much-approved choice of venue for the conference, particularly for those cricket fans among us, as it is the ‘home’ of the legendary

A new full-time regional coordinator is being sought to work out how best to merge Auckland’s ophthalmology services to remove disparities of care.