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Latest launches

Tech-forward launches

From speedy photochromics, to low-level light therapy, dry eye data capture, and biometry – OT has gathered new products to get excited about

Products

05 Jun

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A contact lens to treat depression?

Research

22 May

Joanna Underhill

NuVision appoints non-executive director to support its expansion

Practitioner stories

21 May

Robyn Marsen on the J&J stand at 100% Optical

Johnson & Johnson spotlights its new contact lens at 100% Optical

Products

15 May

A light in the shape of a tear drop with the words Precision7 written on it

Alcon spotlights Precision7 at 100% Optical

Products

13 May

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CooperVision launches clariti 1 day multifocal

Products

07 May

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“I don’t want to settle” – presbyopic requirements in the spotlight

Products

30 Apr 5 min read

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Early career digest

Keeping them comfortable

Career development

27 Apr

100% Optical

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100% Optical 2026: education, training, launches, and connection

Products

09 Apr

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What’s happening in...

Contact lens design and innovation

Products

01 Apr

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Practice team digest

Having better conversations about presbyopia in practice

Practice team

30 Mar 5 min read

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Practice team digest

The style clinic

Practice team

28 Mar

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ACLM appoints new secretary general

Products

12 Mar

Zach Cairns

Optometrist Zach Cairns on practising in Dubai in the wake of Middle East conflict

Practitioner stories

05 Mar

Chithra Dhanablan stands near a banner for CooperVision’s new contact lens – an image of the new packaging is displayed in large scale. Behind her the walls are decorated like a submarine

CooperVision launches MyDay MiSight 1 day

Products

26 Feb

A pack of contact lenses in a white, purple, and orange colouring. Text identifies this as Precision7 contact lenses

Alcon reveals Precision7

Products

26 Feb

Petra Vecca

Bausch + Lomb launches new lens for presbyopic patients

Products

24 Feb

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Locum digest

When presbyopia meets astigmatism: the contact lens fitting challenge

Products

24 Feb 4 mins

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Bausch + Lomb appoints Mark Draper

Products

19 Feb

Moorfields Eye Hospital head of contact lens manufacturing, Shanil Patel, holds a contact lens

A peek inside the Moorfields Eye Hospital contact lens laboratory

Hospital optometry

19 Feb 1

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Latest launches

New frames making a splash

Products

06 Feb

A pack of contact lenses in blue with circles of dabbled white. Text states Acuvue Oasys Max 1 Day Multifocal for Astigmatism

UK roll-out announced for Acuvue Oasys Max 1-Day Multifocal for Astigmatism

Products

04 Feb

Man putting in a contact lens

Early career digest

Habits equal happiness

Career development

03 Feb

A redhaired woman is pictured in the mirror inserting a contact lens

BCLA shares Clinical Conference & Exhibition 2027 dates

Career development

21 Jan

100% Optical

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Consumer trends unpacked at 100% Optical 2026

Business and practice management

15 Jan

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Hoya releases clinical trial data for Miyosmart iQ

Products

07 May 5 min read

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How I got here

Nick Rumney’s limitless ambition for optometry

Career development

29 Mar 18 min read 22 mins

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April/May 2026

The Core values edition

10 Apr

GOC reception area

Sector responses to GOC CPD reform proposals

Government and regulation

23 Apr 1

Most popular across Contact lenses

A panel of four people, three woman and a man, are seated on stage and in conversation

“I don’t want to settle” – presbyopic requirements in the spotlight

Products

30 Apr 5 min read

A lady sitting listening to her optometrist

Practice team digest

Having better conversations about presbyopia in practice

Practice team

30 Mar 5 min read

A packshot of the clariti 1 day multifocal contact lenses

CooperVision launches clariti 1 day multifocal

Products

07 May

Robyn Marsen on the J&J stand at 100% Optical

Johnson & Johnson spotlights its new contact lens at 100% Optical

Products

15 May

Chosen for you

A close up of the view finder of a piece of optical equipment in a consulting room

Frustration over plans for digitising referrals without “fully costed plan for a national roll-out”

AOP

09 Jun 3

Emma Spofforth and Nizz Sabir sitting on an sofa holding the AOP chairman medal

Leadership, continuity and change: AOP chairman handover

AOP

08 Jun 7 min read

The audience at the HG Roadshow event at Old Windsor

Three insights from the HG Roadshow event at Old Windsor

Career development

11 Jun 5 min read

Davina Dosanjh outside of Richard Petrie Optometrists

The cover story

Business class

Business and practice management

05 Jun 12 min read