Confidence in low vision rehabilitation and attitudes towards further learning: A survey of UK optometrists.

Purpose: Optometrists are well positioned to help expand low vision (LV) services and improve their availability and accessibility. Determinants of participation in LV service provision must be well understood to facilitate successful service expansion. This survey aimed to investigate optometrists' professional confidence in the delivery of LV services and attitudes towards further learning.

Real-world experience of using stereotactic radiotherapy combined with anti-vascular endothelial growth factor to treat neovascular AMD.

Introduction: Adjunctive treatment or longer-acting drugs are required to treat nAMD to help ease burdens for patients and hospital clinics alike. Stereotactic therapy is one such option, providing a reduction in the number of injections over time.

Objective: To determine the clinical outcomes in a cohort of patients with nAMD receiving a combination therapy of stereotactic radiotherapy (SRT) with intravitreal anti-VEGF injections (IVI).

Video Conferencing in the Intravitreal Injection Clinic in Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic.

Purpose: To share a useful intervention to minimize risk of COVID-19 infection to both healthcare workers and patients in the eye clinic.

Methods: We present our experience of virtual, within-clinic remote visual acuity assessment to reduce the risk of infection with COVID-19.

Results: Along with standard recommendations for personal protective equipment and hand hygiene to contain viral spread and treating only urgent cases, remote within-clinic visual acuity testing and consultations can be undertaken with minimal specialist equipment and appears to provide useful information whilst being acceptable to patients.