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The Royal College of Ophthalmologists and The National Institute for Health Research are pleased to announce the launch of a new national award scheme to recognise outstanding contribution to clinical research by Fellows/ Members of the College. The RCOphth/ NIHR clinical researcher of the year award is launched this year, commemorating 10 years of the

• 16 March 2017

• Tags | Awards | NIHR

The Getting It Right First Time (GIRFT) report into orthopaedic surgery, published by Professor Tim Briggs in 2012, suggested that changes could be made to improve pathways of care, patient experience and outcomes within the specialty, which would also deliver significant cost savings. As a result The Secretary of State for Health and NHS England

• 26 February 2017

• Tags | Awards | NIHR | GIRFT

The College’s NICE accredited Commissioning Guide: Glaucoma was published in June 2016. A recently published executive summary in our scientific journal Eye provides a review of the key components of the guidance, outlining how commissioners of glaucoma can work in partnership with a range of stakeholders to assess their current performance against evidence-based measures of best practice, and

• 22 February 2017

Applications are now open for the College’s all new Certificate in Laser and Refractive Surgery, closing 18 April 2017. The original Certificate in Laser Refractive Surgery has been extensively revised and its scope widened to include lens based refractive surgery.  A major focus of the reworked examination has been to improve the strength and validity

• 22 February 2017

The CCEHC believes that working at Sustainability and Transformation Plan (STP) level has significant potential to improve care and prevention, and enable commissioners to transform services at scale within likely available resources.  With the exception of two STP areas that are including eye care in their plans[1], the risk is that opportunities to transform and

• 1 February 2017