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Clinical files: Patient diagnosed with bilateral glaucoma with a visual field defect, do they need to notify the DVLA (or DVA)?

In this online CPD course, Thurka Sivapalan MCOptom covers the basic principles of OCT to help diagnose, monitor, and manage glaucoma-related conditions in community practice and in hospitals.

Online CPD courses for optometrists on the topic of glaucoma.

This recorded webinar delivered by Wai Siene Ng primarily covers a summary of Royal College of Ophthalmologists guidelines on primary angle closure disease management.

This recorded webinar delivered by Michelle Hanratty will help you determine when to manage or monitor a patient’s condition and when to refer for further investigation or management.

This online course helps you practise a range of communication skills that are required for patient consultations, including listening, involving patients in decision making, breaking bad news and handling complaints.

An expert panel from the College and The Royal College of Ophthalmologists discuss how to have confidence in managing difficult conversations with patients.

In this recorded webinar, Dr Dan Rosser MCOptom describes two common laser interventions for glaucoma and related conditions: laser peripheral iridotomy and selective laser trabeculoplasty.

In this recorded webinar, Michael Horler FCOptom uses real patient cases to give optometrists a greater understanding of how to interpret an OCT scan and how to recognise some common ocular conditions.

This recorded webinar by Paddy Gunn offers a series of challenging cases from patients seen in the glaucoma service at the Manchester Royal Eye Hospital.

Mr Gus Gazzard from Moorfields Eye Hospital presents information on current surgical treatments for glaucoma and how new 'Minimally Invasive Glaucoma Surgery' (MIGS) differ from previous treatments.

Leon Au covers the latest on glaucoma in this three part video which presents treatments, therapies and surgery techniques.