Advice on wearing face masks for general consulting in non-COVID suspicious patients remains conflicting and is constantly changing. Read more.
More information and resources to support triaging of urgent and critical care and an update on telehealth and the role you can play in supporting patients by offering telehealth services.
Listen to our CEO Lyn Brodie and read our latest COVID-19 Update: Department of Health confirms current position for optometry (Information accurate at 3:00pm Friday 27 March 2020)
Employers and employees are facing unprecedented challenges responding to COVID-19 and its broader implications with the landscape changing at a rapid rate.
During today’s Commonwealth Department of Health Webinar for Primary and Allied Health Professionals, departmental officials indicated that optometrists should now be exercising discretion and limiting themselves to seeing urgent cases.
Listen to Optometry Australia’s National President Darrell Baker explain how we can help and support you through these unprecedented times.
To help navigate the COVID-19 pandemic, we have engaged Optometry Finance Australia to provide regular information and guidance on business continuity management. Today’s communication highlights practical tips and strategies you can start to implement now.
Optometry Australia’s help desk optometrists have been busy answering members’ questions about coronavirus and have compiled them into a list of clinical questions and answers, providing helpful hints for practitioners during the coronavirus crisis. Check them out.
Optometry Australia increases its webcast and online learning offering to help ensure you can access sufficient face-to-face CPD, despite the widespread cancellation of conferences and events.
The second in our series of stories on women in optometry pays tribute to two leading optometrist researchers; the ‘Mother of Orthokeratology’ Professor Helen Swarbrick and rising clinical research star Associate Professor Laura Downie.
