IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT

Applications to join the BARS council will open on Friday 20th of December 2024 and close on Wednesday 22nd January 2025!

If you are passionate about retinal screening and think you could bring something to the council then please get in touch.

To apply simply send us an email to chair@eyescreening.org.uk telling us a little bit about yourself and your professional career, for examples scroll to the bottom of the page and click to see our council member profiles.

Your details will be published on the BARS website when the election opens on 27^th January. Voting will remain open until 14^th February where other members will have the chance to cast their votes during this period. The successful members will be announced 28^th February and confirmed on the BARS Website.

The 22nd Annual BARS Conference

26th - 27th September 2024

The Crowne Plaza Hotel, Liverpool

CLICK HERE TO ACCESS THE CONFERENCE PAGE WHERE YOU CAN SEE ALL OF THE INFORMATION ON A SUCCESSFUL 2024 CONFERENCE INCLUDING OUR FANTASTIC SPEAKER'S PRESENTATIONS.

The 2024 BARS/Topcon Healthcare Poster Competition

The winning posters of the 2024 BARS/Topcon (GB) Medical Ltd Poster Competition were announced at this year's conference in Liverpool with the winners each receiving Amazon vouchers. The standard and content exceeded expectations and with a total of 26 entries, it was difficult to pick out the individual winners. The three posters can be viewed below by clicking the relevant title.

1st) Ian Brennan, Stephen Kelly, Joanne Harmon, Matthew Phillips, Andrew Combes, Shane Mc Mahon, Rob Acheson, David Keegan, Helen Kavanagh, Lousie O'Toole,

EVALUATING THE OCT PATHWAY IN THE IRISH DIABETIC EYE SCREENING PROGRAMME

2nd) Benedict Symon, Carrie Hinton, Gillian Slingerland, Amy Austin, Sallyann Matthews, Carmel Japel, Roger Brint

THE POSITIVE IMPACT OF THE HOSPITAL EYE SERVICE RECALL INITIATIVE ON PATIENT CARE

3rd) Marc Lewis, Anthony Bostock

R3A REFERRAL COHORT ANALYSIS IN OUR MOST DEPRIVED AREA: SWINDON

Once again we would like to thanks all of our participants for their hard work and to our sponsors Topcon Healthcare for their continued support.

The 2024 BARS/Mainline Instruments Photography Competition 

The winners and runners-up of the 2024 BARS/Mainline Instruments Photography Competition were announced at this year's conference in Liverpool. With a total of 11 entries in the clinical category, the winner was decided as Susan Whalley from the Central Mersey DESP team and the runner-up was Sarah Lake from Jersey DESP.

The artistic category had a total of 7 entries and was won by Jade Jones from Central Mersey DESP and the runner-up was Diliana Nikolova from South West London DESP.

The winners received £100 Amazon vouchers for each category and the runners-up received £50 Amazon vouchers for each category and they all received a certificate.

Below are the winners from each category from 2024, Once again we would like to thank Mainline Instruments Ltd for their sponsorship of the BARS photo competition.

Below are the winners from each category from 2024.

Click on the image to open a larger version.

                       Photo by Susan Whalley (Central Mersey)                                                            Photo by Jade Jones (Central Mersey)

Upcoming OCT learning opportunities - see below for details

Optical Coherence Tomography Interpretation Course

Kings Health Partners

This course will allow you to improve your understanding of Optical Coherence Tomography of the retina. The various modules and questions throughout will cover the significance of the individual layers with and without pathology on the retinal scans on both the Topcon Triton and Heidelberg machine platforms. The course will also cover the typical changes seen with diabetes and other non - DR pathologies, including vein occlusions, wet AMD, vitreo-retinal disorders and drug toxicity.

For full details please click on the photo below to access the course site.

We are proud to mention that our own council president was involved in the development of this course (Samantha Mann BARS President)

At the beginning of this year, BARS Council proposed a change to the association's constitution to allow for the annual membership fee to be abolished. BARS members voted overwhelmingly in favour of this proposal, and following an Extraordinary General Meeting on 6th February 2015, the change has been approved. This means that from 1st April 2015, there has been no charge to become an active member of the British Association of Retinal Screening. For more information about this change, and to join BARS for free, please visit the Membership page.

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