In these exceptional circumstances Thea Pharmaceuticals would like to make all our customers aware that we have taken the decision to follow plans for social distancing outlined by the UK government and withdrawn our field teams from their activities in hospitals, optometry and pharmacy customers.
Our sales team remain contactable at home for any queries, and can receive your calls as normal.
We had already increased stock levels in response to Brexit uncertainties and currently our supply chain and manufacturing remain unaffected. We will do all we can to maintain continuity of supply of all our products.
To protect the health and safety of all attendees no Thea educational meetings will be going ahead in the near future.
However our communication and commitment to education for health care professionals will continue, in a different way, using the digital tools we have available to us, and we will continue our monthly webinar programme unchanged. You can book your webinar place here.
We have some challenging times facing us all but in the Thea Way we will ensure we support the profession, our patients and employees in every way we can.
For healthcare professionals
You are invited to join our mission to reduce the amount of preservatives in eye drops and demonstrate successful preservative free patient outcomes. Share your experience and help inspire fellow healthcare professionals to open their eyes to preservative free treatment.
Preservative free treatment has better outcomes for surgical candidates1,2, avoids breaking up the tear film3, does not damage the ocular surface4 or internal ocular structures5, and is linked to improved patient adherence.6 And yet, the UK is still behind many other European countries in the move toward preservative free prescribing. Join the mission to change this.
A £1,000 unrestricted educational grant will be awarded to the three best case studies demonstrating positive change to a patient’s quality of life, as judged by a national selection board of ophthalmologists. Winners will be announced in November 2021 with grants awarded in December.
The contest is open to all UK based registered healthcare professionals working in ophthalmology. A candidate can only submit one case.
Applicants are invited to submit a case study they were involved in which demonstrates an improvement to a patient changing from preserved eye drops to preservative free eye drops. The presentation must be anonymous, written in English and follow the downloadable template.
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