Recommended links

Eye Health Information

• www.everybody.co.nz/centre_eye.html
  Information about eye health and conditions.
• www.allaboutvision.com
  A very useful resource with a superb section on "infant/child vision - for parents."
• www.essilor.co.nz
  Under "Your vision" - there is an excellent section on how the eye works, together with how some different visual defects can be best corrected.
• www.intelihealth.com
  A Harvard Medical Schools on-line database. Where it says "enter a search name," type in the word "eyes" ... then search from there.
• www.glaucoma.org.nz
  A charitable trust to eliminate blindness from Glaucoma.

Suppliers/Partners

While many of Visique Harrington Eyecare suppliers have official websites, the majority of them in fact do not. The following then represent some of our suppliers, you will see many more brands within each of our practices than you will see within this links section.

• www.essilor.co.nz
  World leaders, in optical lens technology, and supplier to Visique Harrington Eyecare
• www.visique.co.nz
  Proactive collective of independent practices.
• www.cibavision.com
  Ciba Vision.
• www.marchon.com
  Marchon eyewear.
• www.adidas-eyewear.com
  Adidas, leaders in research and development for both optical frames and performance/sports specific sunglasses.
• www.silhouette.com
  Silhouette, world class range of high fashion frames and sunglasses.
• www.mirage-eyewear.com.au
  Mirage Eyewear range of products.
• www.fitovers.com
  Innovative product - between function and fashion!
• www.zeiss.co.nz
  Homepage for Zeiss NZ.
• www.bolle.com
  Homepage of Bolle International.
• www.daniel-swarovski.com
  Homepage for Daniel Swarovski Paris Crystal Eyewear.
• www.transitions.com

Optometry Organisations

New Zealand

• www.nzao.co.nz
  NZ Association of Optometrists
• www.nzoptics.co.nz
  NZ Optics - NZ Optical monthly magazine
• www.contactlens.org.nz
  The New Zealand Society of Contact Lens Practitioners
• www2.auckland.ac.nz/opt
  Auckland University - Department of Optometry and Vision Science
• www.ocanz.org
  The Optometry Council of Australia and New Zealand website. This site is for the information and guidance of overseas-trained optometrists wanting to register as an optometrist in Australia or New Zealand.
• www.mivision.com.au
  Australia and New Zealand's Leading Ophthalmic Magazine.

Overseas Organisations

• www.worldoptometry.org
  The World Council of Optometry (WCO) is an international organization dedicated to the enhancement and development of eye and vision care worldwide.
• www.optometrists.asn.au
  Australian Optometry Association
• www.assoc-optometrists.org
  British Association of Optometrists
• www.optometry.co.uk
  Optometry today, is the British, fortnightly Optometry journal/magazine.
• www.contactlenscouncil.org
  The Contact Lens Council (CLC) is an American non-profit organisation serving as an educational resource on vision correction for consumers. The primary goal of the CLC is to promote the safe use of contact lenses.

Associated Industry Groups

• www.moh.govt.nz
  New Zealand Ministry of Health
• www.rnzfb.org.nz
  General information from the Royal NZ Foundation of the Bind. Including information on how to sponsor the Guide Dog Puppy Programme.
• www.hollows.org
  The Fred Hollows Foundation
• www.retina.org.nz
  This is a resource programme to advocate and provide for people with retinal dystrophies.
• www.healthpages.co.nz
  New Zealand's most extensive online directory of health professionals, organisations, specialists, jobs and conferences.

Where we work and live

• www.nelsonnz.com
  Nelson Tasman Tourism, everything you ever wanted to know about the Nelson region, excellent links
• Nelson Dental Centre
  Have been providing quality individualised dental care for people in and around Nelson, New Zealand since 1975.