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  • Get your eyes checked this National Eye Health Week

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    Look after your eyes by going for a regular sight test is the message of this year’s National Eye Health Week which runs from 18-24 September 2017.

    Now in its eighth year, National Eye Health Week brings organisations and health professionals from across Wales together to raise awareness of the need for regular sight tests and how lifestyle habits can affect sight.

  • Eye health crisis set to deepen

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    ONE in five people will live with sight loss in their lifetime despite at least half of all cases being avoidable[i], warns a new report published by charity Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB) and high street opticians Specsavers. 

  • RNIB Visibly Better Cymru scheme provides accessible Radiology Unit

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    Cardiff and Vale University Health Board has recently reopened its Radiology Unit at the University Hospital of Wales which has been redesigned in line with the Royal National Institute for the Blind (RNIB) Visibly Better Cymru Scheme.

    Cardiff and Vale UHB are the only Health Board in Wales to have used the Visibly Better Cymru design principles while undergoing a redesign of a service area.

  • ‘Yale’ is the key to unlock talking books!

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    Stories can open up magical new worlds, allowing the reader to escape to far-away lands and meet colourful and exciting new characters, but for blind and partially sighted people, getting hold of the books they love or need for work or education can be really difficult.

    For over 80 years, supported by clubs and other organisations, RNIB’s Talking Books service has helped create a lifeline to the outside world for blind and partially sighted people in the UK.

  • Blog by Luke Rogers – What happened when I went to the Rebus Festival in Edinburgh

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    On Thursday 29 June 2017, I went to Edinburgh to attend the Rebus Festival which was hosted by writer and creator of said character Ian Rankin. The festival spanned a period of three days. The first event took place on Friday 30 June at Queens Hall which involved an interview with Rankin about Rebus and also included live music from artists such as Blue Rose Code, Michael Weston King and Kirsty Law. This event was concluded with a book signing by Ian Rankin which I also attended. I did not have a book for him to sign as I have purchased his novels by way of audiobook files.

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