CHEC announces collaboration with award winning eyecare company Scope Post Date : September 27, 2022 News 2 minutes read CHEC has announced its collaboration with Scope Eyecare, a leading provider of eyecare and healthcare products. The first joint event will be a virtual CPD learning workshop on 5th October, with a second CPD event announced for 29th November. This Continuing Professional Development (“CPD”) event can be attended via Zoom and will run from 7.00 – 8.00pm. It will offer attendees the opportunity to learn more about the collaboration and gain valuable industry insight and training in eyecare and health. Discussing the collaboration, Jon Dore said, “This collaboration with Scope Eyecare allows both organisations to share our expertise and support community optometrists with their ongoing educational development. “Our upcoming virtual CPD events will prove helpful for optometrists in their day to day work and we are excited to see this partnership flourish as we plan further joint events.” The CPD event will feature renowned consultant ophthalmologist, Ms Nikolina Budimlija, as a guest speaker, who will be discussing common corneal conditions. Budimlija has over 13 years of ophthalmic experience, graduating from the University of Zagreb and training in ophthalmic surgery at the Clinical Hospital Centre, Sestre Milosrdnice, Zagreb. As an expert in her field, Nikolina has been part of the Institute of Eye Surgery (IoES) since 2019. Tom Freyne, Managing Director at Scope, also added, “We are proud to collaborate on quality education events with CHEC. We believe the rapid access to high-quality patient care for ophthalmology patients is a stand-out success factor for CHEC. They also have a strong belief in quality education for optometrists and other important HCPs in the community.” Ms Nikolina Budimlija, Consultant Ophthalmologist The collaboration is part of CHEC’s continued expansion, with the latest site in Accrington opening in November, which will be celebrated with a further virtual and in-person CPD event. The upcoming virtual CPD events follow CHEC’s CPD Open Evening Event in Northampton. Click here to register.