James Thorogood – Corporate Eyecare Consultant

We spend at lot of our working time looking at a computer screen, which can leave eyes feeling tired and in need of feeling refreshed. We’ve put together a series of simple exercises which you can easily do without leaving your seat – here are the first two.

#1 – Massage your eyes using your ring fingers

• Using your ring finger, massage the lower eyelids with the tips of your fingers
• Use short, gentle and circular movements
• Blink to relax the eyes & repeat

#2 – Stretch your eye muscles

• Sit straight, look to the most left side and hold
• Return gaze to straight ahed & blink to relax the eyes
• Repat. Remember to blink a few times
• Do the same action, for other eye positions (left down, up, bottom corner, right down, up etc)

RideLondon-Surrey 100 Cycle Challenge 4^th August

 Moorfields Eye Charity has secured 75 places in this year’s first ever RideLondon-Surrey 100 Cycle Challenge!

This is going to be an amazing event with 25,000 riders cycling 100 miles around London and Surrey in support of over 300 charities. If you would like to participate for Moorfields, registration is £40 and you will need to raise a minimum of £500 for the charity.

For further details, please contact Rebecca on 020 7566 2636 or email eyecharity@moorfields.nhs.uk. For more information on RideLondon-Surrey 100 visit: www.ridelondon.co.uk/Events/100.htm

Moorfields Eye Charity raises funds, above and beyond those normally provided by the NHS, to enable Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust to continue to provide the highest quality care for its patients and their families and to help ensure it remains a world-class centre of excellence for ophthalmic research and education. Please see www.moorfields.nhs.uk/eyecharity for further details about the work of the charity.

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• Boots Opticians, Bath Southgate
• Eye Contact Opticians, London
• Keith Holland & Associates, Cheltenham
• Keith Murphy Opticians, Kenilworth
• Specsavers Sutton-in-Ashfield

Confirmation email from the Optician Awards reads as follows: “I am delighted to inform you that your company has been shortlisted in the Optical Assistant Team of the Year category of the 2013 Optician Awards. Many congratulations on this achievement, since the number and standard of entries this year was very high. The full shortlist may be viewed on the awards website www.opticianawards.com in due course.  The winning entry will be announced on the night of Saturday 13th April at the Birmingham Metropole Hotel, Birmingham”

BCLA urges wearers to buy their lenses with care in response to article in The Sun Newspaper

The British Contact Lens Association (BCLA) is urging contact lens wearers to always buy their contact lenses under the supervision of a registered practitioner and in person.

BCLA President, Dr Catharine Chisholm, commented:

“Contact lens wearers who buy lenses from sources other than their eyecare practitioner have been shown to be less likely to follow good eyecare health practices, including being less likely to attend regular aftercare check-ups”

“A recent study reported that the risk of contact lens-related microbial keratitis – a potentially sight-threatening inflammation of the cornea – was 4.8 times more likely in those that purchased their lenses online compared to directly from their eyecare practitioner”

“Thankfully it is extremely rare for someone to develop an eye infection as a result of contact lens wear – and even less common for this to result in a loss of vision or the eye itself,” added Dr Chisholm

After almost a decade, we have finally updated our website.

Hope you enjoy it!