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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

A new era of contact lens design has the potential to dramatically change lifestyles of presbyopes and treat growing numbers of young patients with myopia.

The need for more practitioners to embrace latest technologies was perhaps one of the driving forces for a BCLA Contact Lens Hub feature at this year’s Optrafair (April 14-16).

The optical body’s president Keith Tempany and chief executive Cheryl Donnelly met Optician at the Hub on the final day of Optrafair to explain more.

Donnelly said: ‘The people who come to Optrafair are not the people that the BCLA normally sees. We are speaking to people who sell contact lenses but are not out necessarily there doing it every day.

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