In focus: Lights, camera, Alconversation

Alcon’s Academy is a well-known destination for practitioners looking for contact lens education and training but it was outside broadcast vans making their way to the Surrey centre last week for the third annual Alconversation.

Chairing the discussion was Richard Edwards, consultant for the Optical Consumer Complaints Service and formerly an optometrist and senior optometry lead. He explained that for 2019, alongside the guests in the studio, was an online audience able to watch the discussion unfold and interject with their own thoughts and questions.

Sitting on this year’s panel were: Roshni Kanabar, clinical and regulatory adviser at the AOP, part time practitioner and City, University of London staff member; Max Halford, CLO and clinical lead at ABDO; and Professor Ed Mallen, head of optometry at Bradford University and president of the College of Optometrists. Unable to attend was director of strategy at the GOC Alistair Bridge, who provided written answers to some of the questions.