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Delegates at an interactive CET workshop

Our online training for eye care practitioners

FREE CPD webinars with the Nystagmus Network for Optometrists and Dispensing Opticians

A brand new series of three Nystagmus Network webinars are now available online on demand for high street optical staff. Attendance at each webinar delivers 1 CPD (Continued Professional Development) point, allowing practitioners to maintain their professional standards.

Investigating and managing nystagmus in the orthoptic clinic is by Gemma Arblaster, Orthoptist at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and Lecturer in Orthoptics at the University of Sheffield. Gemma also serves as a research adviser to the Nystagmus Network.

Jayshree Vasani, Dispensing and Contact Lens Optician, ABDO practical examiner and CET Facilitator, presents Solutions for patients with nystagmus, exploring dispensing spectacles and contact lenses for patients with infantile and acquired nystagmus.

Looking at nystagmus from the patient perspective, the charity’s Information and Development Manager, Sue Ricketts, entitled her webinar 1 in 1,000 things you never knew about nystagmus, bringing the patient voice to the fore.

The webinars will remain available to eye care practitioners FREE OF CHARGE until 12 May 2022.

Sue Ricketts said: “It is the Nystagmus Network’s ambition to bring eye care practitioners and their practices and the nystagmus community closer together, to build stronger relationships, based on knowledge, experience and trust. We are delighted to have the opportunity to provide professional training to help us work towards this goal, thanks to the support the charity enjoys from clinicians and researchers.”

The Nystagmus Network webinars are online here

Delegates at an interactive CET workshop

Training eye care practitioners

FREE interactive CET webinars with the Nystagmus Network for Optometrists and Dispensing Opticians

This December the Nystagmus Network hosted a further series of three interactive training webinars for eye care practitioners.

Investigating and managing nystagmus in the orthoptic clinic was delivered by Gemma Arblaster, Orthoptist at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and Lecturer in Orthoptics at the University of Sheffield. Gemma also serves as a research adviser to the Nystagmus Network.

Jayshree Vasani, Dispensing and Contact Lens Optician, ABDO practical examiner and CET Facilitator, presented Solutions for patients with nystagmus, exploring dispensing spectacles and contact lenses for patients with infantile and acquired nystagmus.

Looking at nystagmus from the patient perspective, the charity’s Information and Development Manager, Sue Ricketts, entitled her webinar 1 in 1,000 things you never knew about nystagmus, bringing the patient voice to the fore.

Around 200 practitioners attended each webinar over the course of three evenings. They were very well received with one attendee, speaking for many, saying “Thank you for such an interesting and informative set of lectures. I felt they were a cut above a lot of CET. Well done!”

Sue Ricketts said: “It is the Nystagmus Network’s ambition to bring eye care practitioners and their practices and the nystagmus community closer together, to build stronger relationships, based on knowledge, experience and trust. We are delighted to have the opportunity to provide professional training to help us work towards this goal, thanks to the support the charity enjoys from clinicians and researchers.”

The charity began delivering CET training in May 2020 and is planning more online and in person interactive workshops and courses in 2022.

The Nystagmus Network logo and the words 'parent power'

Parent Power is back!

Thanks to a grant from our friends at the Thomas Pocklington Trust, the Nystagmus Network is delighted to be able to offer parents and carers of children and young people with nystagmus the opportunity to attend one of a brand new series of Parent Power webinars.

Each webinar will introduce parents to the special educational needs support available in schools and early years settings and empower you to access it for your child. We’ll even introduce you to EHC plans.

Each session will be led by Karen, a qualified and experienced trainer from IPSEA (the Independent Provider of Special Education Advice), supported by the charity’s volunteer education advocate, Claire and Sue from the staff team.

The one day webinars (10am to 2.45pm) are FREE and will be held online from November, 2021 through to March 2022, so there’s bound to be one that suits your schedule.

Places on the next two workshops are already open for booking.

Book your place for Parent Power on Friday 14 January here

Book your place for Parent Power on Friday 11 February here

Members of the Nystagmus Network can request advice from our volunteer education advocate, Claire or ask for a referral to our Education Advocacy Service for one to one support with casework.

The Nystagmus Network eye logo and the words Training the Professionals

Training eye care professionals

High street optical staff need to understand the complexities of nystagmus, how to test the sight and how to dispense any corrective glasses or contact lenses.

Due to the cancellation of so many routine eye clinic appointments during the current pandemic and the signing off of non-urgent cases, such as patients diagnosed with nystagmus, local opticians are now seeing increasing numbers of these patients in their practices.

Following the success of 3 webinars the charity organised and hosted in May 2020, attended by a total of over 900 dispensing opticians and optometrists, the Nystagmus Network is planning to host a further 2 webinars on nystagmus for eye-care professionals.

But we need funding to do this.

That’s why we’re fundraising with The Good Exchange. Please visit our campaign page and share it with your networks.

THANK YOU

See our campaign page here.