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Category: External News

Curated articles relevant to community optometry in Scotland

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eOphthalmic Downtime 12/02/2026 6.00pm to 10.00pm

eOphthalmic downtime Today, 12 February 6.00pm–10.00pm. Due to essential updates, eOphthalmic will be unavailable Today, 12 February between 6.00pm and 10.00pm. Please do not try to carry out patient enquiries or submit …

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eOphthalmic Downtime Wednesday 11 February

eOphthalmic downtime Wednesday 11 February 6.00pm–9.00pm. Due to essential updates, eOphthalmic may experience outages on  Wednesday 11 February between 6.00pm and 9.00pm. If you have tried to submit a claim …

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ABDO announce a new regional lead for Northern Ireland

The Association of British Dispensing Opticians (ABDO) has today welcomed Chris McConnell as the new regional lead for Northern Ireland. Chris McConnell, FBDO, is a dispensing optician based in Belfast …

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ABDO launches annual plan for 2026

The Association of British Dispensing Opticians (ABDO) has today launched its new annual plan, which will guide its work over the coming year on behalf of members. The plan, which …

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NHS NSS Practitioner Services (PSD) Annual Satisfaction Survey

NHS NSS Practitioner Services (PSD) is running its annual Satisfaction Survey to understand how well its services are working for practitioners and where improvements would be most valuable. We encourage …

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NSS January 2026 Ophthalmic Magazine

This afternoon NSS has announced the below: “We have now published our latest edition of our ophthalmic magazine, Focus, where you will find many useful articles on existing administrative and claims …

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AOP Announce the Primary care bodies unite to take fight for financial security to Parliament

The AOP have shared that MPs attending Parliamentary “Moving from Crisis to Recovery” event told investment in primary care needed now to future-proof the NHS. It is stated that the …

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Eyecare Education Early Bird Offer – Ending 31st January

Eyecare Education have kindly shared the following: All good things must come to an end, and unfortunately our Early Bird offer for Eyecare Glasgow and Eyecare Huddersfield are ending on …

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GOC Appoints Kalwant Grewal to Council

The General Optical Council (GOC) announced that Kalwant Grewal has been appointed as a lay member of its Council. He was appointed by the Privy Council, and his term will …

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eOphthalmic downtime Wednesday 21 January 07.30–1.30

Due to essential updates, eOphthalmic will be unavailable on Wednesday the 21st of January between 7.30am and 1.30pm.  Please do not try to submit any ophthalmic claims for payment until after …

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