Practitioners welcome hub of 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
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Interview: Keith Tempany
Interview: Keith Tempany, BCLA president
Catching up with Optician at the BCLA’s flagship Visionaries event in London ...
All roads lead to success
Awards 2017: All roads lead to success
Dividing her time between three practices, mobile contact lens practitioner ...
Alconversation review
Alconversation: Getting the burning issues out in the open
Last week Alcon hosted a Question Time discussion at which a panel of invited ...
Celebrating the stars
Optician Awards 2018: Celebrating the stars
Winning an Optician Award is the highlight of many optical careers. The race is ...
Contact lens prescribing
The trends in UK contact lens prescribing 2017
Now in its 22nd year, Professor Philip Morgan reports on the 2017 Eurolens ...
More lenses on more eyes
Getting more lenses on more eyes
What can contact lens educators do to help increase the number of contact ...
High performance vision
High performance vision
Scientists and clinicians Xu Cheng, Thomas Maggio, Bart Johnson, Brian Pall and ...
Finely tuned customer care
Optician Awards 2017: Finely tuned customer care
Shortlisted in two categories, Hammond and Dummer took home the Contact Lens ...
In focus: Is campaigning enough for compliance?
Is campaigning enough?
The General Optical Council discussed the impact of its ‘Love Your Lenses’ contact lens awareness campaign during a quarterly meeting at its 10 Old Bailey headquarters. Joe Ayling reports
BCLA: Science, celebrations .... and showcasing the latest products
BCLA: Science and celebrations
The 40th anniversary of the BCLA conference and exhibition saw contact lens luminaries and practitioners from around the world come together to shape the future of the sector. Optician reports from the exhibition
Interactive CET feedback: Contact lens dropout
Contact lens dropout
Our interactive CET on contact lens droput (Optician 2 June) was designed to encourage discussion of how to predict possible causes and to consider pre-emptive measures to minimise the risk of it happening. Bill Harvey discusses your responses
In focus: 27 reasons for contact lens aftercare
In focus: CL aftercare
An alarming account this week of a 67-year-old patient who arrived for cataract surgery with a total of 27 contact lenses still in her eye, raises new questions about patient aftercare and compliance. Joe Ayling reports
Event report: A tour de Force
Event report: A tour de Force
Reaching the final of the CooperVision Force Student of the Year competition can mean a major leap forward towards a career in research. Optician reports on the 2017 final, held at the company’s Centre of Innovation in Budapest
Keeping educators on top of their game
On top of their game
Communicating with students was on the timetable at a one-day meeting in Liverpool for contact lens educators and there was useful information to apply in practice too. Alison Ewbank reports
Open door policy
Open door policy
To celebrate 70 years in the eye care business and herald the launch of its optometry scholarship programme Alcon threw open its doors last week
Giving the BCLA its DEWS
Giving the BCLA its DEWS
In the first of a short series of reports from this year’s BCLA conference in Liverpool, Bill Harvey describes the eagerly awaited TFOS DEWS2 presentations
Jane Veys: Accentuate the positive
Jane Veys: Stopping dropout
Jane Veys, director, global professional education for Johnson & Johnson Vision reflects on her experience as an eye care practitioner, a researcher, an educator and a new wearer, on what we can do to help stop contact lens dropout
Up close and personal with Ortho K
Ortho K report
Mike Hale reports from a No 7 Contact Lenses event on Ortho K and myopia control held at the London Stadium
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CET interactive feedback: Myopia management
CET interactive feedback
Bill Harvey offers some feedback on the latest interactive CET exercise
