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May 2025
BIOS Clinical Tutors Course Ireland (May 2025) – 12th & 13th May 2025
Are you keen to develop your clinic teaching skills? There are limited places available for the BIOS clinical tutors’ course. The course fulfils the requirements for Lead Clinical Tutor. This course will be delivered face to face with some work to be carried out independently prior to the course, and between the sessions. The course will cover: • the expectations of students at each stage in the course, • how to adapt your teaching to suit your learners, • how to adapt your work environment to maximise learning, • balancing clinical pressures whilst providing a productive learning experience, • giving constructive [...]
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LOOP annual meeting (face to face) – Tuesday 13th May 2025, 10am – 4pm
Meeting of LOOP – face to face event Agenda: 9.30 Arrival and Coffee 10.00 Welcome and housekeeping - Julie Dowdney 10.15 Orthoptic Apprentice update - where are we? - Julie Dowdney 10.30 Recruitment - issues and concerns - Greg Richardson 11.00 Visibility - Finn Burgum & Alis Sejourne 11.30 Implementing an ACP clinic within Paediatric Ophthalmology - Kristina Alexandra 12.00 AI in Healthcare - Helen Bauckham 13:00 LUNCH 14.00 Special School Screening - Rachel Pilling 14.15 Electronic patient records - workshop - Sonia MacDiarmid & Pamela Anketell 15.15 International recruitment and BIOS update - Craig Murray 15.45 Close - opportunity for [...]
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New Graduate CPD: Peer Teaching Session (online) – Wednesday 14th May 2025, 6:30pm-7:15pm
A session for new graduates to get involved and gain experience in presenting a case in a supportive environment of your peers, as well as coming along to listen, ask questions and share practice. It will be quick, bite-size evening session with 5-10 minute presentations and time for questions and discussion after. Let’s use this opportunity to learn from each other at this early stage in our career, build our CPD and our new grad network. If you would like to present a case, or for any other questions, please contact: [email protected]
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BIOS Symposium, Awards and Workforce Programme Launch Event
These two days of exciting events in Birmingham, are focused on promoting and celebrating the very best of Orthoptics! All events are being held at The Studio in Birmingham, just a few minutes walk from New Street Station. Tickets can be bought for each day individually or the full two days. Orthoptic Workforce Development Programme – Launch Event (Thursday 19th June 2025): This year, to celebrate the outcomes from our exciting NHS-funded Orthoptic Workforce Development projects, we will be holding a day-long event, presenting brand new resources including our Professional Development Framework and the revamped BIOS website. Full agenda to follow. [...]
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Northern Clinical Meeting (face to face) – 19th September 2025 9:30am – 4:30pm
An opportunity to share all the exciting work going on in the Orthoptic services in Northern England. There will be presentations, a quick-fire interesting case session and time to network and connect with colleagues across the region. The agenda is to be confirmed.
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North Heads of Service Meeting (online) – 7th October 2025 1:30pm – 3:00pm
Business meeting Draft agenda: Updates from Trustees Feedback from clinical meeting 2025 Updates from meetings across the region
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Scottish Autumn Clinical Meeting (face to face) – 31st October 2025 10:45am – 4:30pm
Scottish yearly meeting. Agenda includes: Talks from RNIB on upcoming innovation for sight loss Rosie Brennan, consultant neuro-ophthalmology on squint surgery/ neuro-ophthalmology Paediatric consultant Jane Mackinnon Talks from Orthoptists with interesting cases Sharing of working groups and trustee update
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