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APK has consulted for Novartis and Allergan and received compensation. M-AS is the current President of the College of Optometrists, is a previous Chair of the Education and Standards committee, and was Vice President of the College of Optometrists when the guidance was being developed. JS was previously chair of the NICE Glaucoma Guideline Development Group (CG85) and the NICE Glaucoma Quality Standard Topic Expert Group (QS7) and is current chair of the NICE Glaucoma Guideline Update Committee.
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Royal College of Ophthalmologists Glaucoma Commissioning Guidance Development Group Professor John M Sparrow, Ms Jane Bell, Mr Daniel Byles, Dr Timothy Crook, Ms Clara Eglan, Mr Anthony P Khawaja, Mr Simon Longstaff, Mr David Parkins, Dr Mary-Ann Sherratt, Mr Richard Smith, Professor Stephen Vernon, Mrs Lucy Titcombe, Mrs Christine Wall, Professor Heather Waterman, Mr Richard Wormald, Ms Maxine Wright, Mr Russell Young.
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Khawaja, A., Sherratt, MA., Sparrow, J. et al. The Royal College of Ophthalmologists’ Glaucoma Commissioning Guidance: executive summary. Eye 31, 818–822 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/eye.2017.11
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