Optician Awards 2017: Finely tuned customer care
Shortlisted in two categories, Hammond and Dummer took home the Contact Lens Patient Engagement Optician Awards, sponsored by Johnson & Johnson. Joe Ayling visits the Milton Keynes practice
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Timing is key to success
Optician Awards 2017: Timing is key to success
Optician Award winning contact lenses are often related and so it proved for ...
Is campaigning enough?
In focus: Is campaigning enough for compliance?
The General Optical Council discussed the impact of its ‘Love Your Lenses’ ...
BCLA: Science and celebrations
BCLA: Science, celebrations .... and showcasing the latest products
The 40th anniversary of the BCLA conference and exhibition saw contact lens ...
Contact lens dropout
Interactive CET feedback: Contact lens dropout
Our interactive CET on contact lens droput (Optician 2 June) was designed to ...
Event report: A tour de Force
Event report: A tour de Force
Reaching the final of the CooperVision Force Student of the Year competition ...
On top of their game
Keeping educators on top of their game
Communicating with students was on the timetable at a one-day meeting in ...
Open door policy
Open door policy
To celebrate 70 years in the eye care business and herald the launch of its ...
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 ...
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
The joy of being a CLO
The joy of being a CLO
Clare Privato (nee Samuel) offers a personal view of life as a contact lens optician and why she believes it to be such a challenging and worthwhile career
BCLA 2017: Something to celebrate
BCLA: Something to celebrate
The BCLA Clinical Conference and Exhibition at ACC, Liverpool, on June 9-11, will mark the organisation’s 40th anniversary. BCLA president Brian Tompkins reveals what you can expect
BCLA 2017: Who will be at the show
BCLA exhibitors
Which companies will be attending the BCLA Clinical Conference and Exhibition and where you can find them
Optrafair: New approaches for old issues
Optrafair: New approaches
Optrafair 2017 hosted a series of exciting new developments in eye care products, finds Jo Gallacher
How to handle complaints about contact lenses
Love your lens wearers
Richard Edwards gives his view on complaints relating to contact lens wear
Putting the skill back into soft lens fitting
Soft lens fitting
Has the one-size-fits-all philosophy led to an over-simplification of soft contact lens fitting? As it celebrates its 20th anniversary, mark’ennovy convened a European roundtable meeting in Madrid to find some answers
Monthly wearers – surviving or thriving?
Monthly contact lenses
Monthly replacement is the mainstay of many practices. New data shows that, even with monthly replacement, daily wear contact lens wearers are often not fully satisfied with their lenses; many would rather suffer in silence than tell their eye care professionals about the problem. Dr Cristina M Schnider and Michelle Wales explain
CooperVision Summit: Researchers of the future
Researchers of the future
In the final article in our series looking at the research undertaken by each of the finalists in this year’s CooperVision Student of the Year competition, Bill Harvey takes a look at the finalist based at Cardiff University
Optician Awards 2017: Winners step into limelight
Winners step into limelight
A glittering Optician Awards ceremony took place in Birmingham last weekend, when the deserved winners and close contenders were announced
