BCLA Focus On Demand

The Vox Conference Centre | Birmingham | 11 - 12 June 2022 

All two days of sessions from the main Lecture Track are now available for viewing on-demand at your convenience.

The video recordings are available to view on-demand for BCLA Focus registrants only.

Simply follow the instructions below to view the Lecture Track recordings, which will be available for 12 months. 

Please note that CPD is not currently available for watching on-demand lectures. 

How to view an on demand lecture

1. Login to your BCLA account
2. Click the BCLA Focus lecture you would like to view (see list of videos below)
3. Add your chosen lecture to your shopping cart
4. Go to your shopping cart (top right hand corner of your screen) to submit order and complete the purchase (zero cost)
5. Once your order is confirmed, go to your profile by clicking on your name in the top right hand corner of your screen
6. Click onto the 'Learning' tab, then 'Access my learning area' as shown in screen shot below.  This will take you to the BCLA Learning Platform where you can view the BCLA Focus lecture(s)

BCLA Focus Recordings

How close are we to conquering the cone? The crosslinking story
Presented by Dr Vijay Anand and Bronagh Clarke 
Corneal cross-linking (CXL) was first introduced in 2003 and in 2012 was given NICE approval to be used as a treatment for the prevention of progression of keratoconus. In the past decade, Moorfields has treated over 8,000 eyes with corneal cross-linking. During this session, we will look at the origins of cross-linking beginning with the original Dresden technique, which is still being used in several clinics around the world. In recent years, there have been numerous protocols that have been carried out to improve efficiency of the treatment including, rapid CXL, Plused CXL and Rapid pulsed. The talk will discuss where we have come from in corneal cross-linking. We will also look at the current treatment options that are being used in terms of the wide variety of contact lens options now available to practitioners to help our patients with keratoconus. We will discuss specialist soft lenses, RGPs and scleral lens designs. The talk will look at current research and where we are heading in terms of corneal cross-linking treatments and assessments, and look at how close we are to conquering the cone!

Aired on 11 June 2022.

CooperVision Sponsor Spotlight: MyDay multifocal

Presented by Christina Olner

Aired on 14 June 2022.

Menicon Sponsor Spotlight: Menicon's myopia control system in Full BLOOM
Presented by Josie Barlow

Aired on 11 June March 2022.

What have we learned over the last 10 years that has changed clinical practice?

Presented by Prof James Wolffsohn and Prof Lyndon Jones 
It is important to keep up with innovations in ophthalmic technology to be able to offer the best options for a patient’s health and vision related quality of life. This session will reflect on innovations in contact lens practice over the last decade to assess the uptake and how they impact onpatient safety, comfort and vision. Aspects such as materialoxygen permeability, lens surface technology, lens design, optical design and care systems will be explored. ‘Myths and misconceptions’ around soft contact lenses will bedispelled using an evidence-based approach that should allow practitioners to offer the best care to their current and future contact lens patients.

Aired 11 June 2022

A lifetime of contact lens wear
Presented by Karen Walsh, David Webley, and Krupa Patel
From myopia management through to presbyopia, soft contact lens practice increasingly involves the need to achieve successful lens wear over decades. This session explores what drives long-term satisfaction, including discussing what healthy lens wear entails, and how to maximise comfort and vision across a lifetime of wear. Each presenter reviews the evidence for a different life-stage, from kids through to adults, and finally, to meeting the needs of presbyopes. Each section summarises how to integrate this evidence into daily contact lens practice to help maximise patient satisfaction and minimise drop out over the many years that patients wish to wear their lenses for.

Aired on 11 June 2022. Sponsored by CooperVision

BCLA Award Presentations
BCLA Medal, BCLA Fellowship, and BCLA Course Certificates

 Aired on 11 June 2022

MiSight 1 Day contact lenses, what we now know: 6 years of evidence and beyond
Presented by Prof Nicola Logan and Clinical Prof Debbie Jones 
The longest continuous soft contact lens clinical trial for myopia management is now complete. Data from the 6 and 7-year milestones, alongside learnings from the entire clinical study duration, will be shared for the first time at a BCLA conference. New data will help ECPs to understand whether MiSight® 1 day is effective for all myopic children, when treatment should begin and cease, and assess likelihood of rebound post treatment. Principal investigators Professor Nicola Logan and Clinical Professor Dr Deborah Jones will provide clinical insight from their own experience fitting MiSight® 1 day contact lenses and distil what they’ve learned to support ECPs to provide evidence-based decision making in clinical practice.

Aired on 12 June 2022.

Sponsored by CooperVision.

CooperVision Sponsor Spotlight: MiSight 1 Day
Presented by Christina Olner

Aired on 12 June 2022 

Alcon Sponsor Spotlight: Total 30 - The Joy of Nothing
Presented by Rebecca Stoner

Aired on 12 June 2022

Conference Summary and Close
Presented byNeil Retallic

Aired on 12 June 2022

From the ivory tower to the clinic; using research to improve clinical outcomes for patients with DE disease
Presented by Prof James Wolffsohn and Prof Jennifer Craig 
Quarter of a century ago, the lack of options made treatment for dry eye much simpler … but unfortunately it was also mostly ineffective.   Failure to respond to one aqueous tear supplement would be met with a recommendation to try another, often equally ineffective therapy, off the shelf.  Today we are spoiled by a burgeoning range of cleverly designed therapies at our fingertips. It’s critical, as clinicians, that we pay careful attention to the research in this fast-moving field to stay abreast of the scientific evidence surrounding the use of these therapeutic strategies, to understand the how novel mechanisms of action propose to address the impacts of the disease on our patients. In this presentation, the presenters will challenge each other over patient management decisions and, in doing so, describe a range of contemporary treatments for dry eye, discuss the fundamental concepts that underpin the choice of different therapies for specific patients – and the possible benefits and limitations as informed by the literature. From drops to devices … knowing the science can be a real game-changer in bringing symptomatic relief and improved quality of life to patients affected by dry eye disease, offering greater fulfilment as a clinician, and helping to grow a respected and financially rewarding dry eye practice.

Aired 11 June 2022

International Perspectives on Scleral Lenses
Presented by Shreeti Lakhani, Sophie Taylor-West, Karen DeLoss, and Pat Caroline
Scleral lenses have become a popular lens modality especially in North America. They have a wide range of applications from visual rehabilitation to the treatment of severe ocular surface disease. This international panel will discuss their unique experiences and viewpoints of incorporating scleral lenses intkkko their practices. Patients and practitioners can struggle with application and removal of these large lenses, and they will explore handling from both of their perspectives. Scleral lens practitioners vary in the equipment that they require to optimally fit these unique lenses. The latest technology of impression-based lenses, profilometry and wavefront guided lenses will be described. The panel will discuss the advantages and disadvantages of empirical and diagnostic fitting in this post-Covid era. They will explore the long-term follow-up of patients wearing scleral lenses from managing appropriate and realistic expectations to the findings that signal potential complications. Each panellist will describe their most challenging case and how these encounters changed or shaped the way they practice today. Ensuring optimal vision, comfort and physiology is the endpoint of any contact lens fit including scleral lenses but there are still physiological questions that remain. How much oxygen is getting through to the cornea? Do scleral lenses impact intraocular pressure? The panellists will delve into the latest research that is looking to address these topics.

Aired on11 June 2022.

Children and contact lenses
Presented by Clinical Prof Debbie Jones and Dr Nicole Carnt
Prescribing and managing contact lens wear for children is a rewarding part of clinical practice. Improvements in self-esteem, quality of life and participation in sport are documented and well recognised. This is in addition to the health benefits of myopia control. Contact lenses are medical devices and come with risks. Although these risks are small, mitigation and transparency are key to building trust with children and their families. In this one-hour lecture, you will be presented with several practical case studies with examples from a global and local perspective. This course will also highlight how we can incorporate research findings into evidence-based children’s contact lens fitting. The whistlestop tour will showcase the best of children’s contact lens prescribing and management tools and provide pearls for establishing a rich and rewarding children’s contact lens clinic in your practice.

Aired on 12 June 2022

Award Winners - Top Tips: The journey to successful practice
Presented by Indie Grewal, Lynne Fernandes, and Shelly Bansal
Award winners typically have been independently judged to be exceptional, not only in their core clinical and business activities but in illustrating their achievements and communicating that to their peers. Observe this panel discussion on what makes someone an award winner, are there common traits or beliefs that support someone’s journey to success?

Aired on12 June 2022

Posterior OCT has been used for many years by many clinicians in the Optometry sector for visualizing and monitoring changes on many patients. This also has helped to educate patients to why OCT is so important as part of their Eye examination. This presentation is designed to show how clinicians can extend their use of OCT in Clinical practice by using Anterior OCT and its benefits for Glaucoma, Scleral Contact Lens fittings & Dry Eye monitoring. This will enhance understanding of the basic principles of Anterior OCT imaging and how to apply this to clinical knowledge.

What will we learn over the next 10 years that is likely to change clinical practice?
Presented by Dr Shehzad Naroo and Prof Philip Morgan 
Most contact lenses worn today are used for refractive correction and offer the wearer a more natural visual appearance than spectacles. Contact lens technology has started to introduce new uses for contact lenses such as intraocular pressure measurement, drug delivery or myopia progression control. It is predicted that myopia will become increasingly prevalent in the future so more patients will present for refractive correction of myopia and for control of myopia progression with contact lenses. The future promises even more for contact lenses, and it is likely that technologies such as augmented and virtual reality may be miniaturised and incorporated into a contact lens. Will this require different retail outlets for the supply of contact lenses, or different contact lens management and aftercare offered by eye care practitioners? Currently, most patients will purchase their contact lenses from an optical outlet, and this is the route encouraged by eye care practitioner. However, there are alternatives, and some patients will already purchase contact lenses from online sellers. Future contact lens purchases may be from a variety of sources, but patients will need the specialist fitting and regular aftercare services of eye care practitioners. The delivery and frequency of these services may alter and incorporate new technologies such as telemedicine and video consultations. It is likely that education for eye care practitioners involved in contact lens practice will change in the future and need to be made more efficient too to meet future demands.

Aired on 12 June 2022