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Summary: NB magazine for sight loss and eye health professionals - July 2009 issue.

• Free online article - Talking point
• In this issue

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Free online article - Talking point

Access for all? Technology can enrich the lives of blind and partially sighted people, but how should it be funded and made available? Sarah Underwood explores the options.

In this issue

Cost oversight

How many people in the UK are living with sight loss, and how is this figure changing? What are the costs of sight loss both to society and the individual? NB looks at a new report, ‘Cost oversight’, that provides answers to these important questions.

From strategy to reality - the Scottish experience

One year on from the launch of the UK Vision Strategy, John Legg, Director of RNIB Scotland, shows how great strides have already been made towards turning the strategy into a reality.

Food for thought – and sight

Can diet reduce the risk of age-related macular degeneration (AMD)? We look at the evidence.

News

• UK ratifies human rights treaty for disabled people.
• World Health Organisation calls for free spectacles.
• Carers reaching breaking point, says survey.
• Doing seniority differently – Tackling barriers to career progress.
• Award for gene therapy researcher.

Personal stories

A day in the life of … a learning disability project assessment worker.

A few of my favourite things … with playwright Maria Oshodi.

Featured websites in this issue:

• Visual Impairment and Learning Disabililty Services
• Rehabilitation qualifications at Birmingham City University
• Extant
• Carers Week

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