Doctors’ Health Fund records lowest average premium increase in 2018
and the sixth consecutive year of below industry average increases.
Tagged as: Advantage program
Women in optometry
A question from a member about the first female graduates in optometry reveals a rich history of women in the profession.
Tagged as: Leadership, Milestones
Real time answers amid flurry of questions about the future
A high-level of member engagement sparked wide-ranging discussions about the future of optometry in a live interactive webinar last night that marked the launch of Optometry 2040.
Tagged as: Advocacy & government, Future, Scope of practice
Pharma Open Access: Monitoring glaucoma patients
Did a patient’s past steroid drug use lead to current troubles?
Tagged as: Glaucoma, Patient management, Pharma
Pharma Open Access: Sleep apnoea and POAG
Continuous positive airways pressure treatment and elevated IOP
Tagged as: Patient management, Pharma
National and State leaders set clear and ambitious targets in new strategic plan
growing and protecting the optometry sector for the next three years.
Tagged as: Future, Leadership
ECO groups eye off new look
Optometry Australia has developed new branding for Early Career Optometrists across Australia.
Tagged as: ECOs
MBS under discussion
Optometry Australia has met with the federal Department of Health about MBS items.
Tagged as: Advocacy & government
New gel stent for glaucoma
minimally invasive procedure for refractory glaucoma is here.
Tagged as: Glaucoma, Therapeutics
NT needs Indigenous eye-care strategy, and more news in brief
Twelve optometrists attended the first Northern Territory Indigenous Eye Care Conference in Darwin.
Tagged as: Diabetes, Indigenous eye health, Other eye diseases