Optician Awards 2018: Children’s CL Practice of the Year
This year’s Optician Awards recognised the efforts of Central Vision Opticians in north London in giving children the confidence to wear contact lenses. Zoe Wickens reports
Contact Lenses
Linking speciality CLs
Linking speciality contact lenses
Contact lens material maker Contamac is looking to educate and inform the ...
CL business opportunities
Technology advances provide new contact lens business opportunities
Contact lens practitioners gathered in Wembley last month for the inaugural ...
Q&A: Going to the next level
Q&A: Going to the next level
Alcon’s Scholarship programme is looking for new candidates. Optician caught up ...
Awards: Children’s CL Practice
Optician Awards 2018: Children’s CL Practice of the Year
This year’s Optician Awards recognised the efforts of Central Vision Opticians ...
Force: the final frontier
Force: the final frontier
The sixth Force Student of the Year final was the largest yet, with teams from ...
Case study: Winning Force
Case study: Winning Force
In the first of three articles outlining the projects of students shortlisted ...
CL practice of the year
Awards: Contact lens practice of the year
A two-year contact lens transformational plan culminated in a proud moment at ...
One amazing journey
One amazing journey
Students from across Europe and beyond headed for Budapest in May to compete in ...
Practitioners welcome hub of contact lens innovation
Contact lens innovation
Advancements of contact lenses designed to treat presbyopia and myopia excited thousands of delegates visiting the NEC Birmingham for last month’s Optrafair. Joe Ayling reports
Contact lenses: Introducing aloe vera
Introducing aloe vera
Elena Ruiz introduces a multipurpose solution for conventional and silicone hydrogel materials which includes aloe vera as an anti-irritant
Making contact lens moulds – how do they do it?
Contact lens moulds
Optician speaks to Nigel Flowers about the process and the importance of precision and quality in contact lens moulding
Hybrid lenses: The best of both worlds?
Hybrid lenses review
Drop out from contact lens wear continues to be a problem so everything that helps patients stay in lenses is worth consideration. Chris Bennett asks if hybrid contact lenses can help by offering the advantages of both hard and soft lenses
Interview: Keith Tempany, BCLA president
Interview: Keith Tempany
Catching up with Optician at the BCLA’s flagship Visionaries event in London last month, Keith Tempany, also director at Leightons & Tempany Opticians and Hearing Care explains how practices have everything to gain from fitting more children with contact lenses. Joe Ayling reports
Awards 2017: All roads lead to success
All roads lead to success
Dividing her time between three practices, mobile contact lens practitioner Jacqui Hay of Duncan and Todd proved to be miles ahead of the competition at this year’s Optician Awards. Luke Haynes reports
Alconversation: Getting the burning issues out in the open
Alconversation review
Last week Alcon hosted a Question Time discussion at which a panel of invited experts debated and discussed questions posed from all sides of the profession, Chris Bennett reports
Optician Awards 2018: Celebrating the stars
Celebrating the stars
Winning an Optician Award is the highlight of many optical careers. The race is now on to find out who will triumph in 2018. Optician editor Chris Bennett explains how the entry process is taking shape
In focus: Halloween contact lenses still missing fear factor
In focus: Halloween CLs
This Halloween cosmetic contact lenses again ghosted their way onto market stalls and joke shops – posing a challenge to trading standards and eye care professionals alike. Joe Ayling reports
The trends in UK contact lens prescribing 2017
Contact lens prescribing
Now in its 22nd year, Professor Philip Morgan reports on the 2017 Eurolens Research survey of UK contact lens prescribing
Getting more lenses on more eyes
More lenses on more eyes
What can contact lens educators do to help increase the number of contact lenses around the world? The 2017 Congress on Contact Lens Education, organised by the International Association of Contact Lens Educators held in Hyderabad, India in September, provided some answers
