Contact Lenses

Interview: Contextualising contact lenses for a quarter of a century

Mike Hale interviews Professor Philip Morgan and Professor Nathan Efron about 25 years of their annual survey of UK prescribing trends

Toric lens surface as a 'cap' (top right)

Torics: Top choices for astigmatic patients

Optician details some of the toric contact lenses available on the UK market ...

Clariti 1 day: A continuous improvement story

Marcella McParland and Anna Sulley examine the material, lens design and ...

Contact lens solution roundup

Optician looks at some of the contact lens solutions currently on the UK market

Katarina Johnson-Thompson: The importance of contact lenses

Zoe Wickens talks to world champion heptathlete Katarina Johnson-Thompson ...

Looking at labs: Investing in the future

Yiannis Kotoulas reports on a recent visit to Lenstec Optical’s site in ...

More powers to play with

Optician rounds up the multifocal contact lens products that suppliers are most ...

How to recycle your used contact lenses

Zoe Wickens examines the efficacy of Johnson & Johnson Vision and TerraCycle’s ...

UK contact lens prescribing in 2019

Philip Morgan reports on the 24th annual Eurolens Research survey into UK ...

Investing in the future

Mike Hale travels to Kent to visit PKP Optics and see the prescription house’s ...

With an eye on the road

Optician takes a look at some of the best ophthalmic lenses and sunglasses ...

Overnight success

Optician rounds up the various orthokeratology contact lenses products available to practitioners in the UK

Independents stand to gain

Mike Hale speaks to industry experts about the benefits of orthokeratology and how practices can offer it as a service to their patients

How to publish and present research

How to publish and present

Contact lens educators and postgraduate students met in Manchester in May to learn how to optimise their publications and presentations. Alison Ewbank reports from the IACLE/BUCCLE Education Day

Sophie Dutilloy joined Alcon as president for its EMEA region in March, Chris Bennett caught up with her at the BCLA conference in Manchester to talk about Alcon’s new found freedom, artificial intelligence and growing the contact lens business

I need a hero

At the BCLA last month Coopervision was putting the practitioner front and centre by inviting visitors to tell their stories and become a hero, Chris Bennett reports

Focus on the new at BCLA

Photochromic contact lenses, myopia control and extended depth of focus designs were creating a buzz at the BCLA, Chris Bennett reports

Global fight against improper online contact lens supply

Improper online CL supply

Improper contact lens supply over the internet is an issue all over the world. Simon Jones looks at two recent cases that show how overseas optometric associations have attempted to tackle the problem

Smart contact lenses

David Wilson evaluates recent developments in the smart contact lens sphere

In focus: Reality bites for TV star that breached advertising rules

TV star breaches ads rules

A cosmetic contact lens retailer owned by TV personality Marnie Simpson has been sanctioned by the Advertising Standards Authority for its social media adverts. Simon Jones reports on the regulatory issues raised by the case