AHCS has recently announced their next webinar: AI in Physiological Sciences and Pathology with 3 fantastic new speakers and topics!

Read all the details below:

Date: 11th December 12:00pm - 13:45pm

Programme https://www.ahcs.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/AHCS-Webinar-AI-in-Physiological-Sciences-Pathology-Programme.pdf

Register here https://events.teams.microsoft.com/event/a321acfd-f5a4-4e04-8548-c367bebec640@b1b1f607-3f4d-4ab0-abcb-a3a85289ec95

Moorfields Eye Hospital have a vacancy for an Ocular Genetics Clinical Fellow, an exciting opportunity for Ophthalmologists wishing to spend part of their career managing inherited retinal disease. 

Further information can be found here. 

Closing date for applications is the 7th October.  

The visual electrophysiology service at Oxford is looking to recruit a Healthcare Scientist in a new post to work alongside the clinical lead as part of our service development. The job is currently advertised on NHS Jobs. See Job Advert (jobs.nhs.uk) for more details. 

The MEH/UCL clinical Electrophysiology of Vision course is a highly sought after accredited virtual course delivered by world-renowned experts at Moorfields Eye Hospital and UCL Institute of Ophthalmology, many of whom you will know as active ISCEV and BriSCEV members and board members.  This course will feature live on-line lectures by an international faculty, interactive question and answer sessions and case discussions. Pre-recorded introductory lectures will cover topics such as anatomy, ophthalmic imaging and the clinical characteristics of genetic and acquired eye disease.

UKAS has granted the first accreditation for Ophthalmic and Vision Science to our colleagues in the Electrophysiology Department at Moorfields under the Improving Quality In Physical Services (IQIPS) programme.  This has been an incredible undertaking and huge achievement for the team.  

UKAS

Moorfields earns 1st UKAS accreditation for ophthalmic and vision science (IQIPS)

Eye News

Moorfields earns UK’s first UKAS accreditation for ophthalmic and vision science (IQIPS) | Eye News

Please keep your eye on the IQIPS dedicated page in the members area of this website, which will become a page for support and guidance, encourage other visual electrophysiology services to engage in accreditation.   

The next Metrovision training session (Visual field, Vision Electrophysiology) will take place on September, 3rd and 4th 2024.  This will be both on-site at Metrovision's offices and retransmitted for free online.

Registration (gotowebinar.com)

Free UKAS webinar at 12.30 on Wednesday 3rd July where  Senior Assessment Manager, Laura Booth, will explain the benefits accreditation and provide helpful advice on how to plan your journey to accreditation.

Accreditation of physiological services - IQIPS webinar (ukas.com)

The webinar will also include the opportunity to submit questions about the process of accreditation for IQIPS.

Are you eager to attend this year's ISCEV meeting but not sure how you will fund it? Did you know that BriSCEV have some travel grants which may assist?

Please see here for further details of the process: BriSCEV Grants and Awards_v0.1.docx

Application Deadline: Mon 27th May.

Stat Med Limited are very generously offering an ex-demo RETeval Flicker for sale at the  considerably reduced price of £3,500 plus delivery and VAT.  It even includes a brand new, lockable, carry case for the device (retail price £250).

If you are interested, feel free to get in touch for further information: info@statmed.co.uk

We are pleased to share with you the first 30 minute bite-sized webinar in the quality improvement series.  This first session will introduce quality management through real work, service level experience and where quality and accreditation fits.

Wednesday 24^th April 12.30 – 1pm

‘An introduction to quality management and IQIPS accreditation’ with Jamie Walton.

As an accreditation service lead, UKAS technical assessor and UKAS accreditation clinical advisory group member, Jamie Walton will share his experience with these different roles to make quality/accreditation less daunting.  

Registration is now open An introduction to quality management and IQIPS accreditation. | NHS England Events