Primary Vision Screening of 4-5 year olds enables amblyopia to be identified and treated during the critical years of visual development…such a valuable service. Impacts on addressing health inequalities, falls prevention in later life
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Linda Hindle OBE
Department of Health and Social Care

Are you an orthoptist involved in falls management?

Please take our three-minute survey to help us build a picture of current orthoptist involvement across the UK.

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Child vision screening is important to identify a condition called amblyopia, also called Lazy Eye.

In this video, Martha explains what amblyopia is, and why it's important for this to be identified at a young age.

There are still tickets available for our Clinical Tutor's Day in Glasgow on 17 May.

Talks include updates on the simulation hub, the NES Simulation Project, support for tutors as capacity increases, and EDI.

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Charlotte Codina will be there from 10-12 (ahead of her Paediatric Ophthalmology webinar at 12.30).
Pop down to the The University of Sheffield Medical School and have a chat about the benefits of our ACP course for prospective students and employers.

Nominations are open for the #CAHPOAwards 2024!

Orthoptists - this is a great opportunity to gain some recognition for work you've done to improve eye services for patients.

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We're starting with a webinar about our ACP Paediatric Ophthalmology course which has a new #apprenticeship route.
Interested? Sign up and join us on 2 May at 12.30pm to hear from course lead Charlotte Codina👇
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You have until Wednesday to apply to become a Fitness to Practice Panel member for the Health and Care Professions Tribunal Service.

The HCPTS is the fitness to practise adjudication service of the HCPC.

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It's an honour to have been asked to judge the Welsh Government's Award for value based care at the Advancing Health Care Awards on behalf of BIOS Good luck to all the finalists today. Great afternoon celebrating AHP success and innovation.

Is sustainability part of your daily conversations? There are loads of small things we can do to work towards #NetZeroNHS #GreenerAHP

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The Low Vision Service at Royal Hallamshire Hospital, Sheffield Hospitals has made changes to reduce waste and carbon emissions as much as possible. #GreenerAHP #NetZero

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The Chair of LOOP is a fantastic opportunity to work alongside our friendly and supportive Board of Trustees to drive the orthoptic profession forward!

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We're currently running our 2024 Orthoptic Workforce Survey.

If your department hasn't received an email, please get in touch now, or check out the link below for more information.

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BIOS Legal provides all our members with a range of legal services for them and their families, as well as free legal advice via Unionline!

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Two weeks left to book for this year's BIOS Conference at the early-bird rate!

Find out more and book now via our website! buff.ly/3GbtyVY #BIOS2024

Do you deliver an #Orthoptic #Stroke service? We are trying to map what services are currently being offered. Let us know about your service using a quick survey which takes only 5 minutes. Find out more and take part at:
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Greener AHP week off to a good start yesterday & looking forward to learning new ideas we can implement to encourage sustainability ⁦BIOS ⁦

Orthoptists get ready to check out the Greener AHP presentations and let us know how your department undertakes sustainable Orthoptics
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Julie Dowdney (She / her)
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