If you find yourself holding your phone screen, menu or groceries away from your face to find the spot where you can see it more clearly, you may have presbyopia. Choosing multifocal contact lenses is a great way to combat...

Students at Derby College took part in an exchange with BBS Brinkstr School in Derby’s twin city of Osnabruck in April 2016 and we were lucky enough to have one of the teachers on the exchange join us for a...

In May 2016, The College of Optometrists sent out a briefing to its members reporting on the Northern Ireland Childhood Errors of Refraction (NICER) study. It’s the largest ever UK study of the changes in children’s vision. The study has...

After 45 years of practice, Richard Petrie has retired from optometry. Richard has been offering optometry services to Derby residents from Richard Petrie Optometrists on Burton Road in Littleover for 38 years. His official retirement comes two years after he...

Now that it’s happened, and I’ve officially retired from my profession of Optometrist, I thought that I would tell you about my “new” office. It is mostly green, quite large and has brown bits round the edges. If I let...

Changes to children’s vision screening across Derbyshire came into effect in April 2016. We’ve been spreading the word about the changes for the last month or so. The new system means that instead of children’s vision being screened at around...

Talking to Blink founder Stephanie Collier about Blinx glasses accessories. What are Blinx? Blinx are an eye-catching range of accessories for children who wear glasses, allowing them to easily customise their existing spectacle frames. Designed to easily slip on and...

Richard Petrie owner and optometrist Davina visited Silvertrees Nursery in March to talk to parents about the changes to children’s vision screening which come into effect in April. During the presentation, Davina spoke about the new system, which sees children’s vision...

We keep learning more and more about the various forms of macular degeneration and I sometimes wish (not for long) that we were back in the days when I started working in Littleover. Macular degeneration was simple then: it happened...

Whereas sight testing checks the smallest letters or images we can see, vision is more a measure of our interpretation and reaction to the information our brain receives through our eyes. Often, the best people to spot vision problems in...

Of all the conditions that I was taught to look for as a student, all those years ago, glaucoma stands out for the way that our understanding of its causes has changed so much over the years. As students we...

A first eye test can be a little daunting for children and their parents, but we try to make it as comfortable as possible for all of our patients – especially the little ones. Alfie, aged 3, came along for...