EyePod: The optometry podcast

Recorded in front of a live audience at Optometry Tomorrow, this special episode of EyePod brings together the College's clinical advisers for an open, practical conversation about the issues optometrists are facing right now.

College Clinical Adviser Denise Voon MCOptom talks to Dr Parth Shah MCOptom, optometrist and sports vision consultant to a Premier League football club, about his career at the intersection of optometry and sport.They discuss how goalkeepers are trained to track and react to the ball, what optometry can bring to professional football, and how the science of sports vision applies in everyday practice.

College Clinical Adviser Denise Voon MCOptom talks to Marsha de Cordova, Labour MP for Battersea, and Shockat Adam, Independent MP for Leicester South, about their work in Westminster advocating for eye care professionals in England.They discuss their connections to eye health, the current challenges facing the sector, and what College members can do to help champion the profession.

College Clinical Advisor Denise Voon MCOptom talks to Dr Louise Gow, Head of Eye Health, Optometry and Low Vision, and Preeti Singla, Optometry and Low Vision Engagement Manager, both at the RNIB.They discuss their work developing the Adult Low Vision Service Quality Framework, which was created to define best practice for low vision services in any setting across the UK.

At the end of another busy year for the College, Clinical Advisers Dr Paramdeep Bilkhu MCOptom and Daniel Hardiman-McCartney FCOptom MBE discuss the main highlights from this year and what we can expect going into 2026.Further information#TheCollegeWrapped: Our achievements from January to March 2025#TheCollegeWrapped: Our achievements from April to June 2025#TheCollegeWrapped: Our achievements from July to September 2025#TheCollegeWrapped: Our achievements from October to December 2025