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Hundreds of organisations from across the sector joined together to support the first National Eye Health Week. To see a list of who took part click here.
Across the UK, charities, health professionals, optical bodies and PCTs organised a whole range of activities to promote eye health. These included:
- A parliamentary reception in the House of Commons
- An awareness day at Stormont.
- Early day motions in all four UK countries.
- The UK Vision Conference
- An awareness stand in the atrium of the Department of Health
- A series of national and regional radio broadcasts
- An omnibus awareness survey of 4000 people
- Hospital and community based awareness events with OCT or fundus cameras
- Poster competitions in schools
- Visits to care homes and sheltered housing
These are just a few of the activities that took place during the week. To see more take a look at our facebook page. We must now build on this momentum in 2011 and have even more organisations taking part and more activities being staged.
What can your organisation do to promote eye health during National Eye Health Week 2011?
Have a look at the Sponsorship and Friends package!
Don’t forget to register your activity on this site!
Get involved because Vision Matters.
