Public health

A compassionate workplace will support employees through bereavement, writes Kaye McIntosh. What should you do when a colleague loses someone close?

We speak to Yannick Dyant MCOptom, who has combined a career in British optometry with work promoting the profession back in France.

The need for optometrists to write a business case is rising. Helen Bird finds out why, and how to write one effectively.

The conditions and development milestones to look out for in paediatric vision assessments.

In each issue, Acuity poses a topical question to a panel of members.

The College of Optometrists' public consultation on the next edition of its Guidance for Professional Practice is open for feedback until Monday 3 August 2026.

Read our round-up of the College's latest policy, influencing and member engagement activities in Wales.

Podcast: College Clinical Adviser Denise Voon MCOptom talks to Dr Parth Shah MCOptom, optometrist and sports vision consultant to a Premier League football club, about his career at the intersection of optometry and sport.

How vision shapes football performance.

The main purpose of the bill is to abolish NHS England and centralise its services, creating single patient records where patient health information is available in one place.

The aim of this consultation is to deliver a regulatory health and care system that is responsive, flexible, and resilient.

The Health Bill is part of the government's modernisation agenda to improve patient care in England.