Forum aims to gather European CL incidents

Organisers of the Contact Lens European Evidence Reporting (CLEER) Project, a scheme to gather factual data about significant incidents in Europe with contact lenses, is urging more UK practitioners to assist with data collection.

The European Contact Lens Forum (ECLF) announced this week that it has extended its period of information gathering until December 31, 2009. The original deadline was May 2009.

A spokeswoman for EUROMCONTACT, which isalso active in the project, told Optician that to date 22 reporters have registered from the UK to the web-based initiative which hopes to provide evidence about adverse incidents in Europe related to contact lens use including plano cosmetic lenses. Five reports have been made so far, while the project's organisers hope to reach agreement with the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency to integrate its data with their scheme.