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Emerging from Lockdown 3.0
The Road Ahead: 2021 Economic outlook +
Spring Budget: Implications for the optical Sector
Imran Hakim, Gavin Rubello
With special guest, leading economist
Roger Martin-Fagg
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Latest INDUSTRY Updates & News
Latest Updates


Eye care provision under new national restrictions
Jan 5th
Optometrists should continue to provide needs- and symptoms-led primary eye care under the new restrictions, in line with all other primary health services.


covid update
– sector news
Jan 5th
England and Scotland today join Northern Ireland and Wales in nationwide lockdowns. Here is an update about what we know at this stage.


COVID-19 alert level: update from the UK Chief Medical Officers
jan 4th
A joint statement from the UK Chief Medical Officers (CMOs) recommending that the UK COVID-19 alert level move from level 4 to level 5.



Rishi Sunak
The current chancellor of the ex-chequer
“We will get through this together. The British people may be worried but they are not daunted. We will rise to the challenge. People will return to work, supply chains will return to normal, life will return to normal. “