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Clearkone
Posted: Wed 25 Nov 2009 12:08 pm
by marcusp
Hi!
I have Keratoconus and I wonder if someone in this forum know why Clearkone or Synergeyes KC, not are available in Sweden? I have emailed to synergeyes without response
Best Regards
/Marcus
Re: Clearkone
Posted: Wed 25 Nov 2009 12:20 pm
by Anne Klepacz
Hi Marcus and welcome to the forum!
I'm afraid I don't know the answer to your question, but maybe someone else here will.
All the best
Anne
Re: Clearkone
Posted: Wed 25 Nov 2009 12:54 pm
by GarethB
Hi Marcus
Medical products sold in the UK must comply with EU regulations and think these were updated about 10 years ago so that if a medical prodcut was cleared in one EU memberstae, then it could be used immediatly across all member states.
As Sweeden is a non-Eu member, it might be that a set of local country regulations need complying with and to do so may require a lot of work which will bring little finacial return for the manufacturer. It is for this very reason EU regulations were changed to allow a more unified medical approach across member states and to bring the costs of medical products down.
Hope this makes sense.
Re: Clearkone
Posted: Wed 25 Nov 2009 9:31 pm
by Lynn White
Actually, it may just be they don't have a distributor there! I am afraid if they can't tell you no-one here can!
Lynn
Re: Clearkone
Posted: Thu 26 Nov 2009 2:14 pm
by marcusp
Hi!
Thanks for all posts
By the way, this forum is great..
/ Marcus
Re: Clearkone
Posted: Mon 30 Nov 2009 10:20 am
by sophietw
Hi Marcus,
I work for the UK distributer of SynergEyes. SynergEyes, including ClearKone, will start to become available for distribution in Europe in the near future I believe. I couldn't give you an exact date, but I know they'll be around in Switzerland in Jan/Feb, for example.
Sorry that's a bit vague, but I'm sure they will come to Sweden at some point soonish!!
Sophie
Re: Clearkone
Posted: Tue 01 Dec 2009 9:22 am
by marcusp
Hi Sophie!
That sounds great. Must my Eye doctor, contact someone of the distributers or will you contact doctors who are interested of this lens? This information would be great, so I can bring it forward to my eye doctor.
/Marcus
sophietw wrote:Hi Marcus,
I work for the UK distributer of SynergEyes. SynergEyes, including ClearKone, will start to become available for distribution in Europe in the near future I believe. I couldn't give you an exact date, but I know they'll be around in Switzerland in Jan/Feb, for example.
Sorry that's a bit vague, but I'm sure they will come to Sweden at some point soonish!!
Sophie
Re: Clearkone
Posted: Tue 15 Dec 2009 3:12 pm
by Speedy
sophietw wrote:but I know they'll be around in Switzerland in Jan/Feb, for example.
because Switzerland is no EU-Country?
Re: Clearkone
Posted: Tue 15 Dec 2009 6:04 pm
by sophietw
No, just because a group of Optometrists over there have expressed an interest!
I really don't know about getting them in Sweden yet or how you make that happen, it might just be a waiting game I'm afraid....
Sophie
Re: Clearkone
Posted: Wed 06 Jan 2010 2:07 pm
by Speedy
sophietw wrote:I work for the UK distributer of SynergEyes. SynergEyes, including ClearKone, will start to become available for distribution in Europe in the near future I believe. I couldn't give you an exact date, but I know they'll be around in Switzerland in Jan/Feb, for example.
any hopefull news?