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Charities representing blind and partially sighted people are urging the UK Government to increase benefits in line with inflation rather than wages, when a decision is made at the end of the month.

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Autoimmune diseases are quite distinct from inherited retinal dystrophies.

Wednesday 5 November 2025, 7.00pm - 8.00pm - via Zoom - Please come and join facilitators Danielle & Perm for our latest Women's Peer Support Group where we will be joined by guest speaker Seema Flower, Founder and Managing Director of Blind Ambition.

• Local Peer Support Group

Did you join either of our Conferences this year? You can read about them inside this edition of Look Forward. We’ve had some fantastic feedback from our delegates so if you weren’t able to attend, you can watch or listen to the recordings from the day on our website.

• Look Forward
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It was previously believed that female carriers of X-linked inherited retinal diseases (IRDs) like X-linked retinitis pigmentosa (RP and Choroideremia) remained unaffected by sight loss.

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• Choroideremia
• Retinitis pigmentosa

We’re all still buzzing from our recent conferences. We do hope you enjoyed them as much as we did. If you weren’t able to join us, then you can watch or listen to the recordings on our website.

• Look Forward
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Our monthly e-Newsletter featuring the latest updates from Retina UK.

• e-Newsletter
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Jenny Dewing is a postdoctoral researcher working on a Retina UK-funded project with Dr Arjuna Ratnayaka at the University of Southampton.

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With a significant proportion of inherited retinal conditions being caused by unidentified genetic faults, and many families unable to get clear results from genetic tests in clinic, the project set out to solve previously undiagnosable cases and discover more of the genes and mutations that are associated with sight loss.

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The latest developments in technology.

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