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Interview: Keith Tempany, BCLA president

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

Keith Tempany knows that children are most certainly the future for the contact lens market.

The current BCLA president is the right mix of polite and purposeful when speaking to Optician at the organisation’s Visionaries event in London.

His presidential medal hangs down on a crisp white shirt tucked into jeans. Electric blue boots complete the ensemble and underline Tempany’s credentials as someone who stands out from the crowd as a contact lens expert.

Tempany speaks passionately about the subject he knows best.

He says: ‘The first time I looked down a slit lamp I really fell in love with that part of the eye and I wanted to explore this a lot more. So that’s where my love for contact lenses stems from.

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