You’re never too old to have a vision
At last, after 4,000 generations of farmers plus one speechwriter, there's someone in our family working in the field of optical dispensing.
David Slack5 min read
Optometry Comment
ANZSS in Adelaide
This year’s squint club was held in beautiful Adelaide, with lectures held at the Women’s & Children’s Hospital. This annual meeting is always a great opportunity to catch up with colleagues from across New Zealand and Australia, as well as learning about challenging strabismus cases and surgica
Dr Sarah Hull5 min read
Banking on cornea advancements
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.
Dr Simone Freundlich5 min read
Ensure your practice stands out
Running an independent optometry practice in 2020 is challenging; managers and owners are required to wear many different hats. Not only are large competitors saturating the market, patients’ expectations are higher than ever. Fortunately, there are more ways than ever to promote your practice, reac
Will Williams4 min read
Covid-19 in NZ: What about our patients?
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,
Louise Wood5 min read
Collaboration, collegiality and cricket
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
Dr Rahul Dwivedi4 min read
Looking ahead: the latest from London
100% Optical is a reasonably new show to the UK optical industry; it is now in its seventh year. I worked with the show when it first began, back in February 2014, and the following year before going on maternity leave with my first baby. Fast forward to January 2020: I was back working with the sho
Siu-Yin Shing5 min read
Merging Auckland ophthalmology
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.
Lesley Springall3 min read
Allergic eye disease: itching to know more?
Allergic conjunctivitis is a common condition affecting approximately 30 to 40% of the population, depending on location.1-3 In the last decade there have been reports of significant increases in all
Dr Samantha Simkin8 min read
Which way now for our heroic public eye clinics?
The district health boards’ (DHBs) follow-up clinic performance figures to August 2019 have been released in response to an Official Information Act (OIA) request¹. They reveal that those waiting both 50% and 100% too long have more than doubled compared with last year’s figures².
Dr Mike Mair9 min read
Which low-dose atropine for myopia control?
Myopia is rapidly emerging as one of the biggest public health concerns of our generaon. More than 2.5 billion people have myopia globally. It is esmated that by 2050 about half the world’s population will be at risk of losing their sight due to serious myopia-related complications, like retinal
Dr Safal Khanal, with comment by Alex Petty, NZMAG7 min read
Seeing is believing: A VM primer
I have visited well over 1000 practices in multiple continents and I have learned that there are as many ways to practice optometry as there are colours. However, the best in the biz all have clear concise visual merchandising. I do a terrible Arnold Schwarzenegger impersonation, but please imagine
Craig Parker6 min read