Eye Info

Information for eyecare professionals

Summary: Resources and training for people working in the eye health profession.

• Training
• Events and conferences
• Publications
• People with learning disabilities and a sight problem

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Find out about the UK Vision Strategy and what it means for the way you work.

Training

• Early visual development and assessment: the promotion of visual functioning in young children with sight loss – don’t miss this exciting one-day course presented by Dr Lea Hyvarinen, University of Helsinki, Finland. Various venues: 8-13 October 2008.
• Strategies to identify and teach children with impairment of vision due to damage to the brain – presented by Dr Andrew Blaikie on Friday 7 November 2008 in Bristol.
• Eye Clinic Support Studies – professionally accredited course leading to a City University qualification aimed at staff working in eyecare, social and voluntary sectors. 11-14 November 2008 – Birmingham. Apply now!
• Hospitals don’t have to be horrible: improving the experience of parents and children visiting eye clinics – Tuesday 11 November 2008, Leeds.
• Degenerative visual conditions and adventitious sight loss: medical, educational and emotional factors - presented by Maggie Woodhouse and Gail Bailey. Wednesday 19 November – Leeds, or Wednesday 11 March 2009 - London.
• Visual conditions and ethnicity: focus on children and families –Friday 28 November 2008 – Birmingham, or Wednesday 28 January 2009 - Bristol. Book your place now!
• Health and social care short courses – indispensable for care staff, managers, optometrists, rehabilitation workers, staff from social services, housing and voluntary sector agencies, as well as specific education and health professionals.
• Children’s services short courses – our portfolio of courses includes sessions appropriate for eye health professionals and other professionals working in health and social care including health visitors, psychologists and therapists.

Events and conferences

• Vision 2008 - 9th International Conference on Low Vision in Montreal in July 2008.
• Older people and sight loss seminar: 16 September - Bristol, 23 September – Leeds, 18 November – London, or 25 November - Birmingham.
• Eye clinic liaison workshop / networking day: 6 October – Birmingham, 9 October – Liverpool, 13 October – Peterborough, or 4 November – Bristol.
• Sight loss and additional health conditions seminar: 20 October – Liverpool, 2 December – Birmingham, or 17 March – Leeds.
• For additional events and conferences - see our events noticeboard.

Publications

• Patient Focus is for staff working in a medical or therapeutic setting.
• Our guides to eye conditions are designed so patients can understand more about their eye condition. These can be printed from the website. Copies of the publications in our Understanding series can be ordered from our online shop.
• NB magazine is essential reading for sight loss and eye health professionals. Published monthly, it keeps you in touch with the latest developments in eye health, social care and policy.
• Insight magazine - includes regular features on eye health such as spotlights on certain conditions and reports from eye health professionals working with children.

People with learning disabilities and a sight problem

• RNIB's Visual Impairment and Learning Disability Services (VILD) offer support and training for professionals working with people who have learning disabilities and sight problems.
• Look Up - an information service which aims to transform the quality of eye care for the 1.5 million people in the UK who have a learning disability.

Content author: webeditor@rnib.org.uk

Last updated: 18/08/2008 15:41