A vote at the Liberal Democrat Party Conference saw the AOP’s asks on eye care being delivered closer to people’s homes formally adopted as party policy

A session led by the Health Foundation and Ipsos revealed that “the NHS is still top of the pops” in terms of public opinion

Live subtitles and descriptive audio commentary will be added to Premier League football matches on Sky Sports from 10 October, after RNIB user testing

Seven contributors to OT’s Flexibility matters edition share their wisdom

The announcement was made during the opening of CooperVision’s new Vision Centre, in Southampton, on 23 September

The awards will be presented as part of the Visionary Annual Conference tomorrow evening (23 September)

The new StartLine initiative has been designed to increase the confidence those with disabilities have in the Saturday morning 5k

The Duchess travelled to Lusaka as a guest of the International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness last week (14 September)

Two in five UK adults are interested in listening to television drama without the screen, the charity’s research has found

Stewart Lamb Cromar’s Highland Hike, featuring Flora the Highland cow, has won the Lego Ideas Rebuilding Outdoor Adventures challenge

Abra & Co Opticians in Middleton has emphasised that smart glasses can be life-changing if visually impaired patients are given enough support to use them effectively

Sheena Tanna-Shah's e-book is supported by Optometry Wales and launched on 2 September

Head’s position on the board is designed to ensure Specsavers has a dispensing optician voice at the highest level of its business

Three self-employed optometrists tell OT about their first day of locuming

Familiarity with long-term patients and knowing what services are available locally are just two factors that make locuming in the countryside different, practitioners told OT

The charity’s annual conference will take place on 12 September online

Optometrist Dipesh Patel on opening ClearChoice Opticians from scratch and bringing a new independent offering to his Northamptonshire town

Cardiff University’s Professor Barbara Ryan tells OT about relationship building and the importance of peer learning beyond the Teach and Treat clinic

Mike Nesbitt visited Brogans Eyes & Ears in Lisburn and saw the PEARS service at work

Frith is a Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the DHSC, and also holds responsibility for dentistry