Letter: Blue in the face

Prof Chris Dickinson’s timely Optician blue light article (29/9) has kicked some life back into the blue absorber ophthalmic lens topic. One does feel the outcome of the GOC and Boots saga rendered a huge disservice as just sweeping it all under an expensive bright blue carpet was not really the best result when this topic deserves quite the opposite, greater open debate.

A large proportion of the UK’s optical workforce warrants retraining on blue, although what would seem even more challenging is to define a message that all can actually agree. Boots, Vision Express and others were addressing a serious topic with potentially critical visual outcomes 50 years or more down the line. It was a great shame any clinical messages became foolishly tangled in marketing wire.