Contact Lens & Anterior Eye
Volume 32, Issue 4 , Pages 185-186, August 2009

Practitioner influence on contact lens prescribing in the UK

  • Nathan Efron

      Affiliations

    • Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation, and School of Optometry, Queensland University of Technology, Cnr Musk Avenue & Blamey Street, Kelvin Grove, Queensland 4059, Australia
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +61 7 3138 6401; fax: +61 7 3319 6974.
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  • Philip B. Morgan

      Affiliations

    • Eurolens Research, The University of Manchester, Moffat Building, P.O. Box 88, Manchester M60 1QD, United Kingdom

published online 04 May 2009.

Abstract 

Contact lenses are mainly fitted by registered optometrists and contact lens opticians in the UK. Data we have gathered from annual contact lens fitting surveys over the past 12 years indicate that, on average, registered optometrists and contact lens opticians undertake 3.2 and 7.1 contact lens fits per week (p<0.0001). More experienced practitioners tend to fit older patients. Practitioners fitting more lenses per year tend to fit a higher proportion of soft lenses. Contact lens opticians tend to fit a higher proportion of patients with planned replacement and daily disposable lenses compared with optometrists.

Keywords: Contact lens, Optometrist, Contact lens optician, Prescribing, Fitting, Survey

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PII: S1367-0484(09)00047-2

doi:10.1016/j.clae.2009.03.002

Contact Lens & Anterior Eye
Volume 32, Issue 4 , Pages 185-186, August 2009

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