This year, the World Council of Optometry (WCO) will observe World Optometry Week from March 19 to 25, with a special focus on World Optometry Day on March 23, which has been themed "Expanding Optometry's Role... The Time is Now!"
Five months on after the move to a seven day service, Anne Sharkey, Operations Manager, reflects on the difference it has made to the team and how patients have reacted to being able to access specialist eye care on the weekends as well as during the week in the evenings.
We regularly volunteer for international missions to Cambodia through the Khmer Sight Foundation NGO and the Augenärzte für die Welt gGmbH NGO to perform cataract surgery and train local ophthalmologists...