View from the BCLA

Goodbye summer holidays and hello autumn. Hopefully everyone has spent some quality time with their loved ones on a sunny beach somewhere nice and recharged the batteries ready for the autumn.

This time of year also represents an ideal opportunity for our wonderful profession to further improve the vision of school children. I think you know where this is heading. It’s the end of the summer holidays, so let’s encourage parents to consider an eye exam as part of the back-to-school routine.

We all know poor vision can be a barrier to learning and studies show the benefits of contact lens use in young people. But modern life is busy and sometimes it’s about making excuses to ensure important tasks happen, otherwise they can get pushed down the list and forgotten about. So, let’s use going back to school as the excuse to prioritise vision and also as a chance to dispel any myths surrounding contact lens use not being ideal for young people.