Webinar - Quality improvement and excellence in optometry - 25 February 2025

Daniel Hardiman-McCartney MBE FCOptom Higher Cert Glauc

Clinical Adviser

Daniel is one of our clinical advisers for four days each week, dividing the remainder of his time between primary care optometry and community glaucoma clinics in East Anglia. He is a passionate advocate of the profession, committed to supporting all practitioners and ensuring that patient care is always at the heart of optometry. He has helped lead the sector’s response to the pandemic and has made many national media appearances discussing the importance of good eye health and the vital role of optometry in primary care.

He has acted as a senior workforce adviser to NHSE and as an industry consultant. Before joining us, Daniel was the Managing Director of a practice in Cambridge and a visiting clinician at Anglia Ruskin University. He has also worked as a senior glaucoma optometrist with Addenbrooke’s Hospital Trust, Cambridge, and as a diabetic retinopathy screening program grader. He was awarded an MBE for services to optometry in 2022.

Daniel is one of our clinical advisers for four days each week, dividing the remainder of his time between primary care optometry and community glaucoma clinics in East Anglia. He is a passionate advocate of the profession, committed to supporting all practitioners and ensuring that patient care is always at the heart of optometry. He has helped lead the sector’s response to the pandemic and has made many national media appearances discussing the importance of good eye health and the vital role of optometry in primary care.

He has acted as a senior workforce adviser to NHSE and as an industry consultant. Before joining us, Daniel was the Managing Director of a practice in Cambridge and a visiting clinician at Anglia Ruskin University. He has also worked as a senior glaucoma optometrist with Addenbrooke’s Hospital Trust, Cambridge, and as a diabetic retinopathy screening program grader. He was awarded an MBE for services to optometry in 2022.

Denise Voon MCOptom Prof Cert Med Ret

Clinical Adviser

Denise is one of our clinical advisers for three days each week. She is also a specialist optometrist at Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, an optometric adviser to the GOC and domiciliary optometrist. Particularly interested in medical retina, specifically age-related macular degeneration and producing resources to help support people effected by visual impairment to maintain their independence. Denise is one of our expert spokespeople.

Prior to working for the College, Denise has worked in both multiple and independent practices and, as part of her role in the hospital eye service, Denise has worked in the low vision, specialist contact lens, paediatric, diabetic retinal screening and AMD clinics. Outside of practice, she is a Trustee of Autism Bucks, a fundraiser for Riding for the Disabled and has volunteered for the Tibet Eyecare Project and Vision Aid Overseas. She is also passionate about the wellbeing of optometrists and has worked to support colleagues in the workplace. She is a trained performance coach and works as a mentor with Women in Vision. In 2019, she won the Macular Society’s Awards for Excellence - Optometrist of the Year.

Denise is one of our clinical advisers for three days each week. She is also a specialist optometrist at Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, an optometric adviser to the GOC and domiciliary optometrist. Particularly interested in medical retina, specifically age-related macular degeneration and producing resources to help support people effected by visual impairment to maintain their independence. Denise is one of our expert spokespeople.

Prior to working for the College, Denise has worked in both multiple and independent practices and, as part of her role in the hospital eye service, Denise has worked in the low vision, specialist contact lens, paediatric, diabetic retinal screening and AMD clinics. Outside of practice, she is a Trustee of Autism Bucks, a fundraiser for Riding for the Disabled and has volunteered for the Tibet Eyecare Project and Vision Aid Overseas. She is also passionate about the wellbeing of optometrists and has worked to support colleagues in the workplace. She is a trained performance coach and works as a mentor with Women in Vision. In 2019, she won the Macular Society’s Awards for Excellence - Optometrist of the Year.

Dr Paramdeep Bilkhu MCOptom DipTp(IP)

Clinical Adviser

Paramdeep is one of our clinical advisers for three days each week, working in primary care practice and urgent eye care services as a therapeutic optometrist for the remainder of his time in the West Midlands. He is keen to expand and enhance the roles of optometrists in delivering clinical and therapeutic care. He also holds a visiting Research Fellowship at Aston University. He is our independent prescribing lead adviser, leads our myopia management guidance and evidence review and is one of our expert spokespeople.

Before joining us, Paramdeep was a post-doctoral researcher, module co-leader for the Independent Prescribing qualification, and taught on both the undergraduate and postgraduate optometry programmes at Aston University. He is a Fellow of The Higher Education Academy and continues to publish in a range of peer-reviewed scientific journals, with interests in contact lens performance, and ocular surface and eyelid disease management.

Paramdeep is one of our clinical advisers for three days each week, working in primary care practice and urgent eye care services as a therapeutic optometrist for the remainder of his time in the West Midlands. He is keen to expand and enhance the roles of optometrists in delivering clinical and therapeutic care. He also holds a visiting Research Fellowship at Aston University. He is our independent prescribing lead adviser, leads our myopia management guidance and evidence review and is one of our expert spokespeople.

Before joining us, Paramdeep was a post-doctoral researcher, module co-leader for the Independent Prescribing qualification, and taught on both the undergraduate and postgraduate optometry programmes at Aston University. He is a Fellow of The Higher Education Academy and continues to publish in a range of peer-reviewed scientific journals, with interests in contact lens performance, and ocular surface and eyelid disease management.

Webinar - Quality improvement and excellence in optometry - 25 February 2025

Quality improvement and excellence in optometry: Building a culture of safety, insight, involvement an improvement

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Daniel Hardiman-McCartney MBE FCOptom Higher Cert Glauc

Denise Voon MCOptom Prof Cert Med Ret

Dr Paramdeep Bilkhu MCOptom DipTp(IP)

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