Correction to: Eye https://doi.org/10.1038/s41433-023-02880-7, published online 13 December 2023

Due to a typesetting error, references 17 and 18 were added by mistake. They have now both been removed. Consequently, the following sentence should not have had any in-text citations: “The findings of our current work supports the hypothesis that the IP qualification encourages clinicians to undertake further professional development.” The original article has been corrected.