The Nystagmus Network is delighted to share news of the success of Visualise Training’s Seeing Beyond the Eyes Project. Visualise Training’s, Founder, Daniel Williams, was our keynote speaker at Open Day 2019.
Vision UK, the umbrella organisation which leads collaboration with partners across the eye health and sight loss sector recognised the ground-breaking work being done by the Seeing Beyond the Eyes team recently at their joint conference between the RSM GP with Primary Health Care Section, Vision UK and in association with the RSM Ophthalmology Section and Digital Health Section.
The
team faced stiff competition from 5 other nominees in
their category so were delighted when it was announced that they’d been awarded
The Vision UK John Thompson Award for Excellence in
Services, Support and Care 2019, one of the new thematic awards at this year’s
event.
The team’s achievements
in bringing the optical and sight loss support sectors together to benefit patients with visual impairments has been impressive since the project’s launch in May
2018. 60 interactive Continuing Education and Training (CET) workshops have
been delivered throughout England and Scotland empowering over 4,500
optometrists and dispensing opticians to better support their patients living
with sight loss and forge closer links with local and national support
services. Feedback from delegates has been excellent and referrals are
increasing.
Project lead and
founder of Visualise Training and Consultancy Daniel Williams stated “We are
delighted to win such a prestigious award but it is
vital that we continue our education programme as there is still so much more
to be done to ensure patients receive signposting and referrals for support as soon as they get a suspected and life changing
diagnosis.
It is estimated
that over 50% of sight loss is preventable, but it is still
increasing so engagement between the
optical and sight loss support sectors is more important than ever to help
minimise the financial and emotional impacts for patients. Therefore, we are
determined to reach all 21,000 UK optical clinicians but need help from the
optical and sight loss sectors in terms of funding, venues and resources to
achieve this so please contact me if you can assist.”
To find out more about the Seeing Beyond the Eyes project and book your free workshop place, visit https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/visualise-training-and-consultancy-17222888162 or email [email protected]
The picture shows the Seeing Beyond the Eyes team. L-R Peter Black, Gill Perry, Daniel Williams, Jayshree Vasani
