CTA - caption
All blocks test page
Page cards
Diagnosis and treatment
Learn about how macular disease is diagnosed. The optometrist at your local optician’s practice can test sight, prescribe glasses and check for early signs of eye disease using photography or other imaging. It is important to get your eyes checked at least every two years.
Page cards- dark
Diagnosis and treatment
Learn about how macular disease is diagnosed. The optometrist at your local optician’s practice can test sight, prescribe glasses and check for early signs of eye disease using photography or other imaging. It is important to get your eyes checked at least every two years.
Page cards - light
Diagnosis and treatment
Learn about how macular disease is diagnosed. The optometrist at your local optician’s practice can test sight, prescribe glasses and check for early signs of eye disease using photography or other imaging. It is important to get your eyes checked at least every two years.
Page cards - alt
Diagnosis and treatment
Learn about how macular disease is diagnosed. The optometrist at your local optician’s practice can test sight, prescribe glasses and check for early signs of eye disease using photography or other imaging. It is important to get your eyes checked at least every two years.
Downloads list
Image wrap left
Image wrap right
Pull quote
name
Pull quote
name
Title related articles
Generous donations to remember our loved ones
Posted: Monday 29 December 2025
Alongside resolutions and well wishes, the New Year is also often a time to remember those who are no longer with us.
Grandsons cycle 44km for grandma, raising £1,000 to Beat Macular Disease
Posted: Friday 19 December 2025
A grandmother has spoken of her pride after her grandsons, aged just 10 and 12 cycled more than 40km to raise more than £1,000 for macular research on her behalf.
Macular disease Christmas tree rounds off church’s 2025 fundraising
Posted: Friday 19 December 2025
A Christmas tree with a difference has rounded off a church community’s year of fundraising - putting macular disease in the spotlight.
CTA btn
CTA btn
New drug for wet AMD could be approved in 2020
Posted: Friday 20 December 2019
Novartis could launch its new drug for wet age-related macular degeneration in Europe early in 2020 after getting a green light from the European Medicines Agency.
Find out more
National report addresses challenges facing ophthalmology services
Posted: Friday 20 December 2019
A national report by the Getting It Right First Time (GIRFT) has made a series of recommendations to address the challenge of the rising demand in ophthalmology services due to an ageing population.The GIRFT programme works with frontline clinicians to h…
Find out more
What research is on the horizon?
Posted: Thursday 12 December 2019
As more people are being diagnosed with macular disease and the number of people living with it is expected to double by 2050, it is more crucial than ever before that we find a cure.While research has helped us to understand far more over the past few y…
Find out more
People container
Upper text
upper text
lower text
Lower test
Image cards without links
Pizza 1
Pizza 2