Read our latest news including recent updates about our organisation and sight saving research, as well as stories where people living with glaucoma share their thoughts and experiences.
19 December 2019
Our IGA offices will be closed between 24 December to 1 January for the festive period and our Sightline (Glaucoma Helpline) team will unavailable during this time. We will resume our usual operating hours from Thursday 2 January 2020, where our helpline advisors will be able to listen to your concerns, answer your questions and […]
18 November 2019
Every 20 minutes, someone is killed or seriously injured on a British road and each of these tragedies is preventable. This Road Safety Week (18-24 November) BRAKE want everyone to “Step up for Safe Streets” and learn about, shout about and celebrate the amazing design-led solutions that will allow us all to get around in […]
11 November 2019
We’re looking for a new colleague to become our Graphic Designer When? Permanent, part-time 14 hours/week (may be worked flexibly by agreement) Where? IGA head office, Ashford, Kent What? We’re looking for an energetic and creative individual to join our team and help us to: create and deliver print-ready and digital […]
16 October 2019
A new study has revealed that the UK public think sight is the most valuable sense. Researchers from the Crabb Lab at City, University of London surveyed a cross-section of 250 adults from the UK and asked them to rank how highly they valued each of eight human senses relative to the others. Published in JAMA […]
16 October 2019
Our colleague Subhash Suthar, and his contribution to the sight loss community, was recognised on 9 October 2019 when he became the first recipient of the new David Burt OBE Award 2019 at the Vision UK awards. The David Burt OBE award is given to an individual or team working within the vision, eye health […]
30 September 2019
International Glaucoma Association (IGA) and The Royal College of Ophthalmologists (RCOphth) announce prestigious £100,000 Ophthalmology research grant There are around 1.1 million people in the UK currently living with glaucoma, an eye disease that without treatment typically causes loss of vision. Over the next ten years, glaucoma cases are predicted to rise by 22% and […]
26 September 2019
The IGA is pleased to be supporting the 100 Voices campaign, a patient experience initiative for eye services. EyesWise is an NHS project that aims to save sight and improve lives. Since April 2018, work has been underway in hospital eye services across the country to streamline and speed up outpatient treatment for patients at […]
24 September 2019
Learn more about the importance of eye health and how to safeguard your sight from key thought leaders like David Cartwright, Optometrist and Chairman, Eye Health UK: For further information click here. Our Head of Patient Support Services, Joanne Bradley, has also contributed an article explaining dyr eye disease, something that can be associated with glaucoma. […]
17 September 2019
If you came along to our AGM back in March you may have heard the IGA Professor of Glaucoma, Ted Garway-Heath talk about plans to relocate Moorfields. A public consultation was held and this is the IGA response: The IGA supports Moorfields proposal to move services to a new site near St Pancras. The current […]
7 August 2019
The IGA and UKEGS are pleased to invite applications up to £60,000 to fund high quality research that enhances the detection and treatment of glaucoma in order to improve the quality of life for patients. We will consider applications for clinical and laboratory-based research projects into the causes and prevention, early detection, diagnosis, treatment or […]
