France’s new reimbursement for myopia control lenses highlights the global shift toward early intervention – reinforcing Optometry Australia’s call for policy reform alongside our Myopia Awareness Campaign, “Off Screens, Outside, Optometrist”.
With a conversation kicking off about expansion to the Commonwealth Prac Payment (CPP) scheme, led by Dr Monique Ryan, Senator David Pocock and our colleagues at Allied Health Professions Australia (AHPA), Optometry Australia is calling for optometry students to be included. Stories like Jessie’s highlight why extending this support to optometry students will help ease placement-related financial pressures and strengthen the profession’s workforce.
Independent optometrists are set to take an important step forward in digital health, with the latest Optomate software update introducing electronic prescriptions (e-scripts) for the first time within independent optometry practice management systems.
Optometry Australia congratulates Dr Marianne Coleman, Research Fellow and Orthoptist at the National Centre for Healthy Ageing, on being awarded the prestigious $400,000 Dementia Australia Henry Brodaty Mid-Career Research Fellowship. Dr Coleman is working to co-design a dementia-friendly eye care pathway aimed at ensuring people with dementia in residential aged care can “see well, to live well.”
Primary Health Networks (PHNs) have released a National Allied Health Practice Engagement Toolkit to support allied health professionals, including optometrists, to engage more actively with Australia’s primary healthcare system.
Optometry Australia’s 2025 Federal Election campaign, Eyes on Medicare, officially launched today, with coverage featured in The Australian.
In the spirit of reconciliation Optometry Australia acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of country throughout Australia and their connections to land, sea and community. We pay our respects to their Elders past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples today.
