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Sunday 29th November 2009 will mark the 60th anniversary of the implantation of the first intraocular lens (IOL) by Sir Harold Ridley on 29th November 1949. That first lens was implanted at St Thomas’s Hospital London.

For one night, the eve of the ESCRS congress, the stadium of the Spanish and European Champions Barcelona FC was home to the IOL world champions Rayner and the Rayner distributor companies.

Yes, it was a night to remember – a “match of two halves”. The first-half: the presentations and a guided museum tour, and the second-half: a buffet of typical Spanish tapas.

Two representatives from Rayner Intraocular Lenses Limited were invited to attend a reception at Buckingham Palace in recognition of the company’s winning the 2009 Queen’s Award for Enterprise in International Trade. The prestigious award recognises sustained growth in international trade in overseas markets and growing commercial success. Rayner is the only British manufacturer of Intraocular Lenses (IOLs) – implants that replace the eye’s natural lens during cataract surgery.

On Wednesday 6th May 2009, Rayner Intraocular Lenses Ltd donated 1,000 intraocular lenses to the Bureau for the Prevention of Blindness in South Africa. Rayner’s South African distributor, Surgical & Ophthalmic Supplies Pty, had the honour of officially presenting the lenses to Dr Paul Davis, Chairman of the bureau.

Only British company manufacturing intraocular lenses, restoring sight to millions worldwide

Hove, United Kingdom, 21 April: Today the prestigious Queen’s Award for Enterprise is awarded to Rayner Intraocular Lenses Limited, placing it among the most successful businesses in the United Kingdom. 

26 November 2008 is a day police commando Venkatesh Kadam will never forget. He was badly injured in one of the terrorist attacks that rocked the city’s principal hotels and tourist attractions. He lost his sight in one eye.

But the wounded hero will prefer to remember today, when his sight was restored by one of the top eye surgeons in India and the World, Dr. Keiki R. Mehta.

Dr José L. Güell MD from the Instituto de Microcirug“a Ocular (IMO) in Barcelona presented the 2008 Rayner Medal Lecture at the annual meeting here of the UKISCRS: United Kingdom and Ireland Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgeons. In his lecture Dr. Güell covered the latest developments in accurately measuring visual outcomes in “Quality of vision after corneal and intraocular refractive surgery”.

Everyone associates the Rayner range of Toric IOLs with quality, excellence and unsurpassed visual outcomes.
Now, the BEST Toric IOLs in the World have just got better!
Rayner is proud to introduce Raytrace^®, a new on-line ordering system for the Rayner range of Toric IOLs, including the T-flex^® Toric, M-flex^® T Multifocal Toric and the Sulcoflex^® Pseudophakic Supplementary Toric IOLs.

Rayner Intraocular Lenses Ltd announced today that it is sponsoring the latest edition of Eye Movies’ Interactive DVD Series, Phacoemulsification 3. Complications Disk 2 Capsulorhexis and Hydrodissection.

The first UK implantation of a Multifocal Toric IOL (Rayner M-flex^®T took place on Wednesday 9th January 2008 at the Wellington Hospital, London. Surgery was successfully performed by London ophthalmologist, Mr. Simon Levy.

The development of the Rayner M-flex®T Multifocal Toric IOL is another world first for the company and marks a significant leap forward in refractive and cataract surgery.