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Contact Lenses Information

Everything you wanted to know about contact lenses but no-one thought to let you know.


There have been great improvements in eye care over the last twenty years. Yet those improvements been accompanied by a steady erosion of the involvement and participation of the patient him or herself. We do not want to denigrate the vital clinical role of the eye care professionals. We do however question the ability of the profession to drive innovation in contact lenses. All too often the focus of the profession is on the rituals of eye-tests and the commercial need to keep you coming through the door. Yet what do most of you get out of a visit to the optician’s? Same old prescription, same old contact lenses?

The aim of this section is to allow you to make your own decisions, where necessary, in consultation with your optician. We want to help you to look after your eyes yourselves. We want you to understand the choices you have with your particular contact lens issues. And we want you to share information with each other to put you all back in charge of your eyes.

Brendan O’Brien – MCOptom registered with the The General Optical Council and The British College of Optometrists.