BCLA Clinical Conference & Exhibition
Manchester Central | 9 - 11 June 2023

The exhibition will bring together all types of contact lens, anterior segment related and instrument manufacturers who have the vision, knowledge and experience to share their products and business strategies with eye care professionals and practice owners both in the UK and internationally.

Thank you to the 2023 BCLA Clinical Conference & Exhibition Sponsors and Exhibitors* for their continued support. 

 

Platinum Sponsors

 

Alcon helps people see brilliantly. As the global leader in eye care with a heritage spanning over 75 years, we offer the broadest portfolio of products to enhance sight and improve people’s lives. Our Surgical and Vision Care products touch the lives of more than 260 million people in over 140 countries each year living with conditions like cataracts, glaucoma, retinal diseases and refractive errors. More than 25,000 of our associates are enhancing the quality of life through innovative products, partnerships with Eye Care Professionals and programs that advance access to quality eye care.

 

At Bausch + Lomb, we’ve been solely focused on the care of the world’s eyes for 170 years. As one of the best-known and most respected eye care brands in the world, we have a responsibility to meet the needs of patients and eye care professionals. With a clear focus on innovation, quality and expert craftsmanship and a belief in advancing eye health, our mission is simple but powerful: Helping you see better, to live better. Over its long history, Bausch + Lomb has become a global hallmark for innovation and quality with the introduction of revolutionary new contact lens and lens care technologies and innovative materials. Our contact lens offering spans the entire spectrum of wearing modalities and includes well-known brand names such as Bausch + Lomb ULTRA® ONE DAY, Bausch + Lomb ULTRA,® Biotrue® ONEday, PureVision,® SofLens® and Zenlens™. Our lens care products include Biotrue,® ReNu® and Boston® brands.

 

 IMPROVING LIVES – ONE PERSON AT A TIME.
Here at CooperVision, we’re passionate about improving lives, one person at a time. And because every patient is different and every eye is unique, we produce a full array of daily disposable and reusable soft contact lenses that feature advanced materials and optics, as well as premium rigid gas permeable lenses for orthokeratology and scleral designs.
We’re proud of our strong heritage of addressing the toughest vision challenges, such as astigmatism, presbyopia, childhood myopia and highly irregular corneas. We understand the importance of offering you and your patients a comprehensive portfolio of spherical, toric and multifocal contact lens options. 
Through a combination of innovative products and focused practitioner support, we aim to bring a refreshing perspective to the marketplace, creating real advantages for customers and wearers.

  At Johnson & Johnson Vision, we’re helping people see better, connect better, live better. Sight is our most valued sense. That’s why, every day, we work with eye care professionals to connect cutting-edge insights, science, and technology to solve a lifetime of eye health needs. From protecting and correcting vision to allow our youngest patients to grow, play, and learn; to enhancing and restoring vision to fully experience the lives we’ve built—we’re there every step of the way.

 

Gold Sponsors

 

Menicon Limited are dedicated to bringing life into sharp focus. By creating the most advanced contact lenses, we provide a new way of seeing the world - helping  to protect the most precious of all our senses and  bringing better vision within reach of everyone. Our unique range of innovative lenses provide a solution for eye conditions at every age and stage of life, delivering exceptional comfort and ease of use to make contact lenses the effortless choice for clearer vision.
With a wide range of speciality, custom fit and soft disposable lenses, we offer lenses to suit every patient’s needs. Products like Menicon’s Miru family of lenses, with SmartTouch™ technology that offers hassle-free handling, improved hygiene and a system that’s quick and simple, making active compliance easier and delivering a positive lens-wearing experience for patients. Or Menicon Bloom™, our innovative holistic treatment plan for myopia control that can be easily incorporated into children’s daily routines.

Premium Sponsor

Topcon Healthcare

Topcon Healthcare sees eye health differently. Our vision is to empower providers with smart and efficient technologies for enhanced patient care. Keeping pace with the ever-changing landscape of the healthcare industry, we offer the latest integrated solutions including advanced multimodal imaging, vendor-neutral data management and groundbreaking remote diagnostic technology.
A globally-oriented business, Topcon is focused on developing solutions towards solving societal challenges in the mega-domains of healthcare, agriculture, and infrastructure. In healthcare, these challenges include increasing eye disease, rising medical costs, access to healthcare, and physician shortages. By investing in value-driven innovations, Topcon works to enable people to enjoy good health and high quality of life.

Exhibitors

Avizor UK Ltd

AVIZOR UK Ltd Supplies a range of Contact Lens Care & Ocular Health Products to Opticians in the UK and N.Ireland. Our manufacturing plant is based in Madrid and globally we employ >300 people and supply 80+ countries around the world.
The Contact Lens Solutions product range includes Preservative Free Ever Clean Plus, GP Multi, Alvera, Unica Sensitive, All Clean Soft and REGARD. Our Ocular Health Dry Eye range is headlined by Ocu-Dry 0.30%, but also includes Lacrifresh Aloe, Moisture and Ocu-Dry 0.20%.

Eaglet Eye

Eaglet Eye is the global leader in ocular profilometry. Our Eye Surface Profiler (ESP) is a cutting-edge technology that measures the cornea, limbus, and sclera with unrivaled accuracy, generating detailed 3D height maps that enable faster and more accurate specialty lens fitting.
The ESP is designed to support all types of specialty lenses, including Scleral, OrthoK, Hybrid, Soft, and corneal RGP lenses, with over 50 fitting algorithms from more than 30 labs integrated into the system. All can benefit from the ESP data!
By leveraging the data generated by the ESP, you can make informed, data-driven decisions to find the perfect specialty lens fit for each patient, achieving optimal visual outcomes and unmatched patient comfort. Take your specialty lens practice to the next level.

EyeCheckup

 EyeCheckup prodcues software in the retinal imaging & diagnostics sector. Currently, the firm is responsible for development of the most accurate and diverse artificial intelligence based software to diagnose retinal diseases such as diabetic retinoapthy, age related macular degeneration, glaucoma, retinal vein occlusion and general deviations from normality. Our aim is to increase the accessibility of retinal diagnostics through an economic feasable and streamlined process, thus preventing blindness and vision loss to maximum possible extent.

Hanson Medical

Hanson Medical is a UK Manufacturer and distributor of diagnostic medical and optometric products to the eyecare industry. Established in 1996, we serve an expanding industry that is ultimately responsible for the health and wellbeing of the UK populations' eyesight. Our team makes our business what it is. The business benefits greatly from the close and co-operative spirit that exists within Hanson medical and with great employee retention, we value the skill and experience our team members provide to customers. We are proud to be ;
The Exclusive UK distributor of the high-end CSO range of medical and optometric diagnostic instruments including the MS-39 Anterior Segment OCT, Osiris Aberrometer, Retimax Ocular Electophysiology System and the comprehensive range of top quality slit lamps.
A UK distributor of the extensive Keeler range of ophthalmic and optometric diagnostic instruments.
A UK distributor of the Accutome range of ophthalmic ultrasound diagnostic instruments.
Last, but by no means least, the exclusive UK distributor of the Unicos range of diagnostic optometric instruments.

Lumenis
Lumenis is renowned for technological breakthroughs ophthalmic lasers and a long list of industry gold standards. Our company pioneered the first argon laser photocoagulator for ophthalmology; the first approved marketer of Nd:YAG photodisruptor lasers; developed and introduced the breakthrough technology of multicolor photocoagulation along with the world’s first Laser Indirect Ophthalmoscope (LIO); developed and brought to market the revolutionary SLT technology for managing POAG, and more. Today, Lumenis offers you the confidence of doing business with a company that is truly committed to ophthalmology and to meeting your needs.

Northern Lenses

NuVision Biotherapies
NuVision Biotherapies are a tissue-therapies company focused on the application of human amniotic  membrane for ocular disorders. Amniotic membrane is the innermost layer of the placental sac, which protects and holds the foetus during pregnancy.  NuVision upcycles and transforms this waste product of birth into an effective wound care product, called Omnigen. The Tereo manufacturing process, developed at the University of Nottingham’s Academic Ophthalmology department, transforms this waste product of birth into a sterile and stable dry regenerative therapy that can be easily shipped and accessed anywhere in the world. Omnigen is applied directly to the wound dry and is rapidly and effectively rehydrated using surrounding moisture to immediately reactivate the beneficial properties to promote tissue repair and healing in a variety of ways. The product represents a unique and versatile “off-the-shelf” regenerative product, and it may be stored long-term. Omnigen can be applied by OmniLenz using a simple 4 – 6-minute procedure in an outpatient setting. OmniLenz is a specially-modified bandage contact lens designed to apply and hold Omnigen at the ocular surface without the need for sutures or surgery. OmniLenz is manufactured exclusively for NuVision by Menicon, UK.

Ocumetra
Ocumetra is a data analytics company, founded by two globally renowned researchers and clinicians, Professor James Loughman PhD and Professor Ian Flitcroft D.Phil FRCOphth. Whether you have yet to engage with myopia management or if it is already your standard of care, we provide the answers you need to deliver personalized, adaptive eye care to every myopia patient. We have developed a unique portfolio of tools that work for every level of experience with myopia management as well as tools that ensure compliance with the latest myopia management clinical guidelines.

Ophtecs Europe B.V.
Ophtecs Group is a manufacturer of contact lens care products headquartered in Kobe, Japan. The Japan-based operations include a research and development (R&D) laboratory, manufacturing facilities and sales and marketing functions for Japan and the Asia Pacific Regions. Ophtecs corporation pioneered the development of povidone-iodine disinfection (PVP-I) systems for both soft and GP lenses, and has products for a wide range of contact lenses including silicone hydrogel, ortho K lenses and scleral lenses. The PVP-I system has been recognized for achieving high disinfection efficacy while being easy and safe for patients, and is sold throughout Asia and Europe. Ophtecs corporation is proud to have successfully completed MDR certification in 2022. Further innovations have focused on ways to improve wearing comfort for contact lens wearers. We strive to continue to make meaningful contributions to the ophthalmic field worldwide.

Optosoft Ltd

 Independant UK manufacturer of scleral and ortho-k contact lenses.

Oté Pharma UK

OTE ARE ONE OF THE LEADING CONTACT LENS SOLUTIONS SUPPLIERS IN EUROPE, AND PRODUCE PRODUCTS FOR ALL LENS TYPES

Positive Impact
Fiercely and unapologetically independent, both as a business and the customers it supports, Positive Impact will be showcasing its extensive range of contact lenses for presbyopia and myopia control. Pride of place in its range is NaturalVue® Enhanced 1-Day Multifocal contact lenses, from VTI, licensed for both presbyopia and myopia control, as well as the SynergEyes range of hybrid lenses for astigmatism and irregular corneas. In addition to contact lenses delegates can find out more about the Dry Eye Zone®, its range of best-in-class dry eye diagnostics and treatments. New this year is the ScoutPro portable tear film osmolarity measuring device from Trukera (formerly TearLab) and the World’s first and only open-eye compress – TearRestore. To find out more about these products and the company’s training/CPD lecture support, visit stand 10 or browse www.positiveimpact.co.uk

Safilens UK Ltd

Safilens is delighted to be taking part in the 2023 BCLA Conference.

Safilens was founded in 2001 with the aim of creating innovative, high-quality products for the contact lens industry. 
An “Optician Only” supplier incorporates an impressive product portfolio centering on the Fusion Presbyo lens which features a smoother surface with natural, quick and constant stabilisation, and benefits from the revolutionary “fusiontechnology™”: the synergistic actions of Hyaluronic Acid and TSP (Tamarind Seed Polysaccharide) normalises and keeps the physiological relation between tear film and ocular surface stable, giving wearers more natural, longer-lasting comfort than ever before.
Fusion Presbyo 1-day is the only disposable contact lens with Afocal design for reducing the effects of presbyopia. The innovative lens design gives an unbeatable depth of focus to the wearer leading to clear images at all distances.

Safilens also launches DELIVERY, a game-changing new family of contact lenses. 
The first product in the family is DELIVERY TYRO, a daily contact lens with biological functions, designed to release tyrosine, an amino acid that helps normalize ocular development.
DELIVERY TYRO lenses not only correct myopia but also favor normalization of the development of the eye. Which explains why this is a contact lens designed especially for young people – because myopia is a refractive impairment that appears in the first few years of life, it aids prevention through the supply of dopamine, a natural substance that influences cell metabolism. 

Scope Eyecare
Scope is a family-run company for three generations with a heritage of bringing evidence-based, premium products to healthcare professionals and end-consumers alike. Scope offers innovative Ocular Surface Disease Management Dry Eye and Blepharitis products. Scope operates in both the United Kingdom Ireland and now the USA.

The Body Doctor Ltd 

Our in-practice treatments give Eye Care Professionals the opportunity to offer clinically proven, gentle microexfoliation treatments within Dry Eye clinics. NuLids Pro oscillating soft tip decaps inspissated Meibomian Glands in a simple four-minute treatment. ZEST is a deep cleansing system with Okra  polysaccharides that gently binds and lifts debris from the eyelid margin.
Optimel™ Manuka honey is applied directly to the eye lid margin or palpebral conjunctiva. Tearing and autonomic blinking rapidly displaces the honey drop to the eyelid margin to aid lid hygiene, softening and displacing lid margin residue, typically associated with frequently heavily colonised lid margin dry eye and/or blepharitis cases. Reduces lid margin redness, improves tear quality and reduces eye discomfort. 
Backed by science, supported by experts in Medical & Ophthalmic field

Aston University

 Aston University has one of the oldest optometry degree programmes and is the largest undergraduate programme in the world. Aston Specialist Postgraduate Eye Care Training (ASPECT) offers distance learning / on-site continuing education, College of Optometrist accredited certificates (Medical Retina, Glaucoma and Paediatrics), General Optical Council accredited Independent Prescribing and university accredited Certificate, Diploma, MSc and Professional Doctorate awards.

University of Bradford

University of Central Lancashire

"We would love to introduce our blended learning Optometry course for qualified Dispensing opticians with or without a contact lens specialist qualification. We are based in Preston which is easy to reach from all over the UK. 
The University has a fully accredited full time optometry course available, however if you are an optical assistant looking to further your career you could come and talk to us about our dispensing course.
The University of Central Lancashire has been asked to exhibit at this prestigious UK conference. There will be senior lecturers and a current student present on the stand during all 3 days. Looking forward to seeing you when you find us tucked on stand three."

University of Manchester