Courses for nurses and allied health professionals

We offer a wide range of short courses for nurses and allied health professionals, many virtual and self-paced to fit around your working commitments.

We continue to enable non-medical staff to learn new skills and take on responsibilities previously within the remit only of doctors. This ensures that everyone’s professional expertise is used to the best effect and provides improvements to patient care. For example, some nurses at Moorfields are now qualified to administer intravitreal injections to patients with wet age-related macular degeneration – a service previously provided only by medical staff – while others are trained to provide laser treatment for posterior capsular opacification, a common side-effect of cataract surgery.

 

This learning experience was a breath of fresh air; expanded my knowldege and career potential.

Short courses

Eye emergencies for the non-ophthalmologist

Eye emergencies for the non-ophthalmologist
A short evening course aiming to give the non-ophthalmologist the knowledge, skills and confidence to evaluate and where appropriate to manage common ocular ophthalmology emergencies.
£125.00

Oculoplastic nursing and allied professionals study day

Oculoplastic nursing and allied professionals study day

This one day in-person course is designed to improve clinical practice and knowledge by highlighting new ways of working within this specialty. It discusses the management of various oculoplastic conditions and the role of Nurses and other Allied Health Professionals in delivering an excellent service..

£200.00

Ophthalmic peri-operative care pathway

Ophthalmic peri-operative care pathway
The one-day course will cover the patient pathway from the time they are listed in clinic for surgery through to pre-assessment and on to the day of surgery until discharge. You will hear about the Moorfields experience of streamlining the ophthalmic peri-operative pathway and our learning from successes and failures.
£380.00

Ophthalmic emergency study day

Ophthalmic emergency study day
This study day aims to upskill ophthalmic practitioners in the triaging, assessment and management of emergency eye conditions. Suitable for Ophthalmic Nurses, Advanced Clinical Practitioners in primary and secondary centres, Ophthalmic Nurse Practitioners, Allied Health Professionals and those who are interested in ophthalmology.
£400.00

Biometry study day

Biometry study day
This one-day in-person study day has been designed to meet the training needs of nurses, nursing associates, technicians, and anyone with an interest to improve their knowledge and understanding of biometry and its calculation and reading a biometry report.
£350.00

A and E clinical skills lab

A and E clinical skills lab
This half-day in-person clinical skills course will provide an opportunity for comprehensive simulated training for essential clinical skills in emergency eye care.
Start Date: Wednesday 22nd March 2023
£250.00 0 spaces available

Non-medical intravitreal injection course

Non-medical intravitreal injection course

This highly sought after course is aimed at clinicians working in an ophthalmic or medical retina setting, focusing on the treatment of age-related macular degeneration, retinal vein occlusion and diabetic oedema.

Start Date: Friday 19th May 2023
£375.00 24 spaces available

The macula course

The macula course
A four-day course providing a comprehensive and up-to-date review of retinal and macular diseases and their management. Attend in person or online.
Start Date: Monday 19th June 2023
£780.00

Medical retina level 1 (College of Optometrists Professional Certificate in Medical Retina)

Medical retina level 1 (College of Optometrists Professional Certificate in Medical Retina)

This course aims to provide the knowledge of common medical retina conditions and includes topics covering screening, referral and possible treatment pathways, with an emphasis on optical coherence tomography (OCT) interpretation and diabetic retinopathy grading. It also aims to provide you with the knowledge and skills to make accurate and appropriate referral decisions for patients with medical retina conditions and prepares you to commence working under supervision in medical retina new patient triage clinics, AMD treatment-retreatment clinics and to work in photography based diabetic retinopathy screening services. This course is designed to suit busy professionals through blended learning. It is delivered online and supplemented by face to face component.

£1,200.00 20 spaces available

Ophthalmic practitioner training: Peripheral fundus and vitreoretinal emergencies

Ophthalmic practitioner training: Peripheral fundus and vitreoretinal emergencies
This course will ensure attendees become more confident in diagnosing and managing vitreoretinal emergencies. It will help Allied Health Professionals to streamline the patient pathway more effectively by recognising urgent conditions that need to be referred as well as non-urgent conditions that do not require a referral.
£100.00

ILS (Immediate Life Support) training

ILS (Immediate Life Support) training
Immediate Life Support was developed by Resuscitation Council UK for healthcare professionals who may have to act as the first responder in an emergency, giving them the skills to manage patients in cardiac arrest before a cardiac arrest team arrives.
Start Date: Thursday 27th April 2023
£160.00 0 spaces available

PILS (Paediatric Immediate Life Support) training

PILS (Paediatric Immediate Life Support) training
Paediatric Immediate Life Support was developed by Resuscitation Council UK for healthcare professionals who may have to manage and treat paediatric patients in an emergency.
Start Date: Wednesday 12th April 2023
£160.00 5 spaces available

Cataract, medical retina and disc assessment

Cataract, medical retina and disc assessment
This course includes a mixture of online learning and in-person practical skills training and as been designed to meet the training needs of band 6’s and 7s who wish to develop their knowledge and skills in disease recognition, management and intervention of Cataract, Medical Retina and Disc Assessment.
£400.00

Glaucoma level 1 (College of Optometrists Professional Certificate in Glaucoma)

Glaucoma level 1 (College of Optometrists Professional Certificate in Glaucoma)

This introductory course in glaucoma aims to provide you with the understanding of the condition as well as the knowledge and skills to evaluate a patient who may have glaucoma. It further aims to provide additional specialist knowledge and skills for monitoring patients with diagnosed ocular hypertension (OHT) and suspect open angle glaucoma (OAG) who have an established management plan. You will require to have an intermediate slit lamp skills. This course is designed to suit busy professionals through blended learning that will be carried out 100% online through lectures, forum activities and webinars. This will be supplemented by face to face learning for the practical skills element of the course.

£1,200.00 20 spaces available

Ophthalmic technicians introduction course

Ophthalmic technicians introduction course

This virtual self-paced course has been specifically designed to take individuals with no experience in ophthalmology or ophthalmic clinical practice to enable them to reach a level that they can productively join a non-medical professional ophthalmic team.

£250.00

Children's eyes: An introduction

Children's eyes: An introduction

This self-paced online course aims to introduce the learner basic concepts of paediatric ophthalmology, in order to give them confidence when approaching children.

£450.00

An introduction to data science for clinicians

An introduction to data science for clinicians

This self-paced online course introduces clinicians to data science and provides them with an overview of data science in a clinical context, along with basic skills to handle data. The course gives a broad insight into data science and its application on real data, including artificial intelligence.

Start Date: Monday 24th October 2022
£350.00