100% Optical priority booking for ABDO members will open at 10am on Monday 20 January. Members will have until midnight on Tuesday 21 January to book onto a wide variety of dispensing workshops – before general booking opens.
From Monday 20 January, the full Dispensing Workshop programme will be available to view and book on the 100% Optical website – with ABDO once again providing an array of discussion workshops. Running on each day of the show, the workshops will offer CPD points for dispensing opticians, contact lens opticians and optometrists.
These will include ‘Spectacles or contact lenses: you decide’ – with Dr Alicia Thompson (ABDO) representing spectacles, and Max Halford (ABDO) representing contact lenses. Alicia and Max will go ‘head-to-head’ in a knockout style workshop discussion session – leaving the optical solution ‘deciding vote’ with delegates. Vision correction options for children, presbyopes and working professionals will all be explored.
In ‘Walking the line’, Alex Webster (ABDO) and Tina Arbon-Black (ABDO) will exploring areas of optical practice where all registrants need to ensure they are making appropriate decisions and working collaboratively as a team. With their peers, delegates will be asked to consider areas of sale and supply and delegated functions, to ensure everyone in practice able to ‘stay the right side of the line’.
In a discussion workshop, supported by EssilorLuxottica, Charlotte Timbury (EssilorLuxottica) and Cheryl Hill (ABDO) will address the topic of ‘Light sensitivity and management’. Light sensitivity is a common complaint heard in practice and in this session, delegates will discuss how to ensure that the best solution is recommended to the patient. The increase in light sensitivity symptoms, the importance of light management to control the effects of glare, reduced contrast, and available solutions, will be discussed.
NuVision Biotherapies UK will deliver a discussion workshop and lecture about amniotic membrane transplantation and the clinical data relating to its application in primary eyecare practice; alongside a demonstration of the application of amniotic membrane via a bespoke bandage contact lens for out-patient application.
Other sessions in the Dispensing Workshop will look at the role of primary eyecare professionals in the eyecare support pathway; Louise Gow and Preeti Singla (RNIB) will explain what is meant by support and information, and how DOs and optometrists can play a key role at all stages and through each strand.
In a Minima-sponsored discussion workshop, Rob Barrow (Exeter Eyewear) and Emma Krestin (Peter Allen Eyewear) will emphasise a patient-focused approach to delivering personalised solutions using rimless frames. The different metals available in rimless eyewear, along with their pros and cons, will be discussed and delegates will participate in practical exercises aimed at improving their skills in dismantling and assembly, repairing, and maintaining both push and screw fitted rimless spectacles.
Caledonian Optical is sponsoring a discussion workshop titled ‘Benefits of lens-led dispensing’ – taking in the customer journey, best practices, technologies, and more. There will also be a SeeAbility-curated discussion workshop on ‘Providing optimal care for people with learning disabilities’. This session will provide strategies for DOs and optometrists to optimise the support they give in practice, to enable people with learning disabilities to achieve equitable eyecare.
With a ‘focus on the future’, the show’s over-arching CPD programme will include lectures, on-stand exhibitor-led sessions and peer review on a host of clinically-relevant topics including myopia management, contact lenses for all generations, advanced clinical imaging, optical coherence tomography, paediatric eyecare, red light therapy, artificial intelligence, glaucoma, and optimising care for patients with learning disabilities.
Dr Ian Beasley, who is head of education for the show’s official education partner, the Association of Optometrists, said: “As we enter the first year of a new CPD cycle, delegates attending 100% Optical will have an early opportunity to get ahead of fulfilling their requirements with our extensive education programme, designed specifically to cover the broad spectrum of clinical practice. Practitioners from all modes of practice will have over 100 CPD sessions to choose from, to engage with content and develop in their chosen area.”
Keep an eye out for a special 100% Optical exhibition preview feature in the February issue of Dispensing Optics.