With coronavirus continuing to cause border closures, lockdowns and restrictions throughout Australia, two states have announced changes to their upcoming conferences with virtual programs introduced.
The adoption of a resolution committing 193 countries to ensure full access to eye care services for their populations, could be the kickstart needed in Australia to motivate government action.
Starting your career is an exciting time and building good money management skills will help you to set yourself up for the future. Here, ASIC’s Senior Executive Leader Laura Higgins provides some finance tips to our younger members.
With National Diabetes Week underway, and only 33% of people with diabetes understanding that the disease can affect their eyes, Optometry Australia is urging optometrists to leverage the opportunity presented by KeepSight, a national eye health awareness program targeting 1.3 million Australians living with diabetes.
Through proactive media engagement, Optometry Australia generated a record 650 pieces of editorial coverage in a variety of media outlets nationally in FY2020-2021 and 1,400 over the past three years, with the majority of stories carrying key eye health messages to Australians.
With five months left of this CPD year, Optometry Australia is reminding members that all optometrists must meet the minimum amount of hours of education, including interactive hours, as set by the OBA with therapeutically endorsed optometrists having additional requirements to meet.
As NAIDOC week celebrations continue, we profile Shannon Davies who is the first Aboriginal optometrist to be appointed to the Optometry Council of Australia and New Zealand board, and who is thought to be the first Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander woman registered as an optometrist in Australia.
In celebrating this NAIDOC week, optometrist Ben Hamlyn says that the teachings of First Nations peoples at Pika Wiya provides the guidance that he needs to continually ensure that he is delivering culturally responsive and appropriate optometry services.
Optometry Australia has launched its new policy platform detailing the organisation’s goals to ensure that optometrists are working to their full scope of practice and are in a position to combat a tsunami of predicted eye disease.
Two years after launching, KeepSight has reached a crucial milestone in its mission to end diabetes-related blindness in Australia and this initiative now has around 60% of Australian optometry practices currently participating in this nation-wide program.
