On Friday the 15th September Dr Richard Hart and Dr Sonya Bennett attended the 2017 Save Sight Society Meeting at the Langham Hotel in Auckland. This society was formed in 1966 by a group of ophthalmologists and was originally called the New Zealand Society for the Prevention of Blindness. More recently the name has been changed to the Save Sight Society.

The meeting was entitled ‘The eye through the ages’ and was focussed on discussing eye related topics according to age. The morning schedule started with childhood diseases then moved on to adolescents and young adults. The afternoon talks focussed on middle age and then the 60s and beyond. Dr Hart gave a talk late afternoon in the final category of the day concerning the 60+ age group. His presentation was called ‘Peri-ocular lumps and bumps’. It described the various types of nodules and lesions both common and uncommon that can occur in and around the eye.