Focus on the new at BCLA

Manchester played home to this year’s British Contact Lens Association conference where 1,000 delegates attended three days of lectures presented by international stars of the contact lens world and offering 62 CET points.

Alongside the comprehensive programme of lectures was an active exhibition where Johnson and Johnson was showing off its Acuvue Oasys with Transitions Light Technology (see box). This offers the prospect for a completely new category of contact lens and delegates were certainly keen to see it in action. The concept certainly sounds compelling and is a big departure from its spectacle lens counterpart. One of the groups being targeted with the lens are younger men, offering a tempting inroad into a demographic under-represented in contact lens wear.