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Reform in Wales underway
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as optical assistants training. With more than 30 years’ experience running courses for multiples, and having supervised more than 20 pre-reg students themselves, they decided to launch their own academy for the independent sector where access to courses is limited. They provide online training through OA Optimise as well as help pre-regs find positions. Visit www.optomacademy.com to find out more.
Heroic new styles: HE4315 and HE4316
Optometry Wales
An ambitious programme for eyecare reform is underway in Wales after receiving ministerial sign off last month. It will mean a substantial change within primary care optometry in the nation over the next 18 months, announced health and social care minister Elenud Morgan. The reform process will see the profession delivering more clinical work in the primary care setting and greater involvement in local decision making at primary care cluster level.
Sarah Schumm, chair of Optometry Wales, commented: “This is a fantastic opportunity to truly be part of the primary care community, to fully utilise the skills we have to be able to truly be part of the diagnosis, management and treatment of citizens in Wales. Some aspects of the reform can take place quickly and some aspects will take longer to embed but we will work with the profession, Health Education Improvement Wales, Shared Services Partnership and the Welsh government to ensure that this phased approach to implementation is as seamless for practices as possible.”
Optometrists Wasim Sarwar and Shamina Asif have launched the Optom Academy to provide support and training to preregistration optometrists – and independent practices looking to recruit them – as well
Welsh minister, Elenud Morgan
Full training and support will be arranged over the coming months as more details are shared about what will be required, and what the financial package will look like. “This is a new era of change for the profession and we are incredibly excited to help set the pace for change,” added Sarah. “We will be continuing to offer individual sessions to help all practices across Wales understand how the landscape will be changing and how to manage that change effectively.”
Elizabeth Lumb (left) and Dr Block with the poster
CooperVision
The World Council of Optometry (WCO) and CooperVision shared their vision for myopia management at the International Myopia Conference in Rotterdam last month. A poster presentation reflected on changing approaches to the disease – co-authored by Dr Sandra Block, WCO president elect, Elizabeth Lumb, CooperVision director of global professional affairs, myopia management, Professor Peter Hendicott, WCO president, and Dr Susan Cooper, managing director of the World Council of Optometry.
The partnership between WCO and CooperVision provides evidence-based science that eyecare professionals need to best serve their myopic patients through virtual presentations, published articles, and a website with multi-lingual myopia management resources that may have not previously been widely accessible or actively addressed in certain sectors or countries. The goal is for optometrists across the globe to embrace myopia management as the Standard of Care and to make it an integral part of their practices. For more information about the global resolution to advance myopia management and standards of care, visit www.worldoptometry.org
