PPE & Heat Stress, Vacancy, Screen Eyestrain, CET Webinars And FODO News

12 June 2021

We have 6 items for you today:

1. Personal Protective Equipment And Heat: Risk Of Heat Stress
   The East of England NHS Gateway have issued the following email:

   

   Issue:

   Wearing personal protective equipment (PPE) in warm/hot environments increases the risk of heat stress. This occurs when the body is unable to cool itself enough  to maintain a healthy temperature. Heat stress can cause heat exhaustion and lead to heat stroke if the person is unable to cool down.
    

   Measures to control the temperature of clinical environments and enable staff to make behavioural adaptations to stay cool and well hydrated should be made. Staff may require more frequent breaks and the frequency of PPE changes may increase, with a resulting increase in demand.

   The following link contains further information and actions.

    

   • CEM_CMO_2021_012.pdf

    

   This alert has been issued to:

   Other contacts Independent Healthcare Providers (registered with CAS) Clinical Commissioning Groups NHS Regional Offices NHS Foundation Trusts (England) – Medical Director NHS Foundation Trusts (England) – Chief Executive Social Care Providers (registered with CAS) Special Health Authorities NHS Trusts (England) – Medical Director CMO Urgent Messages – Non-NHS Recipients on Public Health Link Territorial CMOs in Northern Ireland, Scotland & Wales Regional Directors of Public Health Consultants in Communicable Diseases CMO Urgent Messages – Recipients on Public Health Link Director of Public Health NHS Trusts (England) – Chief Executive GP – Locum NHS 111 and Out of hours providers GP Practices Community Pharmacy Primary Care Networks GP Practices 1

    Additional information:

   You can view further details of this alert by clicking on the following link: View Alert

   The Central Alerting System has been approved by the Review of Central Returns – ROCR. ROCR/OR/0110/006MAND
    

2. Optometrist Vacancy at Mamdani Opticians 
   We have been advised of the following vacancy:
   “Optometrist required for a well equipped private practice in Bishops Stortford. For further information or to apply please contact Minaz on 01279 656872 or minmamdani@icloud.com“
    
3. Nystagmus Awareness Day
   
   The Nystagmus Network are running an awareness day on Sunday June 20th. Further information, including a link to the programme of events such as presentations, workshops and competitions can be found HERE.
4. “Coronavision Concerns” and Tips on Reducing Screen Eyestrain
   The College of Optometrists’ is encouraging the public to seek eye care if they have concerns about their vision or eye health. Further details can be found HERE. They include five top tips for patients on avoiding eyestrain:
   • The 20-20-20 rule. Give your eye muscles a rest. Every 20 mins, look at something 20 foot away, for 20 secs
   • Remember to BLINK regularly
   • Have your screen BELOW eye level and between 40 to 75cm away
   • Make your text size BIGGER to make it more comfortable to read
   • Use lubricating DROPS if your eyes get dry.
5. FODO News
   Is HERE, including a Macula Society survey and ABDO’s first summit on the environment.
6. CET Webinars from Heidelberg, Optegra and Johnson & Johnson
   Heidelberg have asked us to forward the following email:

   

   Dear Hertfordshire LOC Practitioners, 

   I am emailing with educational opportunities that might be of interest to you,

   Webinars:

   • OCT Imaging in Neuro-Ophthalmology: Weds 16th June | 6:30pm-7:30pm (BST)
   • Monitoring Papilloedema with OCT: Weds 1st September | 6:30pm-7:30pm (BST)
   • Neuro-Inflammatory Disease and OCT: Weds 1st December | 6:30pm-7:30pm (BST)

     Each webinar above has 1 CET point approved for optometrists (3x CET points in total). 

     New Online CET Course Room:

     The Heidelberg Engineering Academy invites you to explore the new Online CET Course Room, where you can find Continuing Education and Training (CET) through recorded webinars. The CET course room is designed for optometrists and dispensing opticians, and is free of charge. You will need to sign-in or create a free Business Lounge account in order to access the content. You can collect 1 CET point for each online course. If the course room proves popular, more CET content will be added throughout the year.

     I am also pleased to inform you that you it is possible to view recordings of past “lockdown” webinars on our website. This web page will be updated regularly as new recordings are released. 

     Kind regards,

     Emily Malbon, Head of UK Marketing and Education.

     Heidelberg Engineering Limited, 55 Marlowes, Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, HP1 1LE

     Phone: 01442 502 330
     Fax: 01442 242 386
     www.HeidelbergEngineering.co.uk 
      

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     Optegra are running a CET webinar, “The ABC of OCT in AMD: OCT of the Retina and AMD” on Tuesday 15th June 2021 at 6.45pm, presented by Mr Sajjad Mahmood FRCOphth MA MBBChir

     They say: “Optical coherence tomography has become an essential tool in the diagnosis and management of retinal pathology and it is more often being used in the community. This lecture will be delivered by a Consultant Ophthalmic Surgeon specialist in Medical Retina who will provide an insight into OCT scans interpretation in the context of age related macular degeneration.”

     For further details and to register, click HERE.
      

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     30 Years of Quiet Eye Webinar   This webinar will outline the key material requirements for modern soft contact lenses, and how these material characteristics can affect comfort and physiology. In doing so, we will consider what role hydrogel contact lenses have in modern practice. Corneal oxygenation (and how this is predicted by laboratory measures such as Dk and Dk/t) will be described. The importance of material characteristics for wearer comfort will be explored. The presentation will also focus on an area which has received relatively little attention: the ocular inflammatory response to lens wear. 23rdJune at 6pm BST This session is approved for 1 interactive CET point for optometrists and contact lens opticians only. To book your place on the webinar, please register here. This session will be held on Zoom webinar. To book onto the session, please follow the link above. For those unable to join the webinar live, a recording will be made available via www.jnjvisioncare.co.uk shortly after the event. We look forward to welcoming you to the webinar. The Johnson & Johnson Vision Team

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     Kind regards

     Herts LOC