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                                                                   EXHIBIT 10(f)


                              TELEFLEX INCORPORATED
                           DEFERRED COMPENSATION PLAN

            This is the TELEFLEX INCORPORATED DEFERRED COMPENSATION PLAN, as
amended and restated effective January 1, 1999 (the "Plan"), that Teleflex
Incorporated, a Delaware corporation (the "Corporation"), maintains to provide
its directors with a deferred compensation arrangement and that the Corporation
and its participating affiliates maintain to provide certain of their employees
with such an arrangement.

            1.    Effective Date. The Plan was effective January 1, 1995. This
amendment and restatement is effective January 1, 1999. "Fiscal Year" means each
twelve-consecutive month period beginning on January 1 and ending the following
December 31 during which the Plan is in effect.

            2.    Eligibility. Any director of the Corporation, and any employee
of the Corporation or a participating affiliate who is designated by the
Corporation as a Key (Management) Employee, shall be eligible to participate
herein (hereinafter referred to as a "Participant").

            3.    Annual Retainer Deferrals. Prior to the beginning of a Fiscal
Year, a Participant who is a director entitled to receive an annual retainer
from the Corporation for service on the Corporation's Board of Directors may
elect to defer receipt of any whole percent of his or her retainer payable
during that Fiscal Year.

            4.    Salary and Bonus Deferrals. Prior to the beginning of a Fiscal
Year, a Participant who is an employee may elect to defer receipt of any whole
percent (2% minimum to 50% maximum) of his or her base salary, commissions or
other regularly paid cash compensation payable during that Fiscal Year. In
addition, such a Participant may elect to defer receipt of any whole percentage
(10% minimum to 75% maximum) of his or her annual discretionary bonus which
otherwise would be payable during that Fiscal Year.

            5.    Restricted Stock and Option Deferrals.

                  a. Restricted Stock. Prior to the beginning of a Fiscal Year
            in which a restricted stock award is scheduled to be made by the
            Corporation's Board of Directors under the Teleflex Incorporated
            1990 Stock Compensation Plan or any stock compensation plan
            subsequently adopted by the Corporation (the "Stock Plan"), a
            Participant who is potentially eligible to receive such an award in
            such year may elect to defer receipt of any whole number of shares
            (10% minimum to 100% maximum) of the award under this Plan. Any rule
            under the Stock Plan relating to risk of forfeiture of shares
            awarded under the Stock Plan shall 
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            continue to apply to any portion of an award the receipt of which is
            deferred under this Plan.

                  b. Options. A Participant may elect to defer receipt of shares
            which would otherwise be received upon the exercise of a
            nonqualified stock option awarded under the Stock Plan in accordance
            with procedures established by the Plan Administrative Committee and
            with the approval of the Compensation Committee of the Corporation's
            Board of Directors.

                  c. Dividends and Stock Splits. Cash dividends paid with
            respect to shares deferred under this Paragraph 5 and any cash paid
            in lieu of fractional shares shall be deferred in the same manner as
            salary and bonus deferrals under Paragraph 4. Stock dividends and
            stock splits paid with respect to deferred shares shall also be
            deferred and held and paid under the Plan, in the same manner as
            deferred shares.

            6.    Deferred Benefits. Any amounts deferred by a Participant
pursuant to Paragraph 3 or Paragraph 4, and cash dividends and cash payable in
lieu of a fractional share that are deferred pursuant to Paragraph 5, and any
shares deferred by a Participant pursuant to Paragraph 5, as adjusted for stock
dividends and splits, shall constitute the deferred benefits ("Deferred
Benefits") payable hereunder. Deferred Benefits shall be credited to a notional
account ("Account") established for each Participant by the Committee.

            7.    Investments.

            A Participant's Account (other than shares deferred under Paragraph
5) shall be credited with earnings, gains and losses based on the Participant's
investment elections. The Participant's investment elections shall be made
annually and shall indicate (in 5% increments) how the Participant's Account
(other than shares deferred under Paragraph 5) and future amounts credited to
his or her Account should be deemed invested among the options available under
the Plan.

            The investment options available under the Plan are:

                  a. Fixed Income Option. Amounts deemed invested in this option
            shall be credited with interest during a Fiscal Year at a rate equal
            to 1.5% plus the five-year U.S. Treasury Bond yield as published in
            the Wall Street Journal on the last business day of the November
            preceding the beginning of the Fiscal Year. Such interest shall be
            credited on a quarterly basis in arrears to Participants' Accounts.


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                  b. Teleflex Common Stock Option. Amounts deemed invested in
            this option will be valued as if the amounts were invested in shares
            of Teleflex Incorporated common stock, par value $1 per share, and
            all dividends received on such shares were reinvested in shares of
            such stock.

            8.    Funding. In order to meet its obligations hereunder, the
Corporation and any participating affiliate may, but shall not be required to,
set aside or earmark an amount necessary to provide for payment of Participants'
Account balances. In any event, the obligations of the Corporation and any
participating affiliate hereunder shall constitute general, unsecured
obligations, payable solely out of their respective general assets, and no
Participant shall have any right to specific assets. This shall be considered an
"unfunded" arrangement for purposes of the Employee Retirement Income Security
Act of 1974, as amended ("ERISA").

            9.    Distributions.

                  a. A Participant's Account balance shall be distributed or
            commence to be distributed to a Participant within 30 days after (1)
            the date the Participant dies, becomes disabled or terminates
            employment for any other reason, or (2) the distribution date
            elected by the Participant (an "Alternative Date"). The Alternative
            Date elected by a Participant shall be no earlier than the first day
            of the fifth calendar year following the date of the Participant's
            election. An Alternative Date may be revised by the Participant,
            provided that (1) such revision occurs at least twelve months prior
            to the original Alternative Date, and (2) the new Alternative Date
            is no earlier than the first day of the fifth calendar year
            following the date of such revision.


                  b. A Participant shall elect the manner in which his or her
            Account balance will be distributed when he or she first elects to
            participate in the Plan. Distribution may be made in a lump sum
            payment or in approximately equal annual installments over either a
            five or ten-year period. The form of payment elected may be revised
            by a Participant, provided that such revision occurs at least twelve
            months prior to the date on which payment of his or her Account
            balance is to commence.


                  c. The Corporation may permit a Participant to elect a
            distribution prior to the time specified in subparagraph (a) under
            the circumstances set forth in Treas. Reg. Section 1.457-2 (h)(4)
            and (5), as determined by the Committee.


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                  d. The unpaid balance in a Participant's Account at his or her
            death shall be paid to the beneficiary designated by the Participant
            or, in the absence of an effective beneficiary designation, to his
            or her estate.


            10.   Administration of the Plan. The Corporation shall appoint a
Plan Administrative Committee ("Committee"), which shall have full power and
authority to interpret, construe and administer the Plan and the Committee's
interpretation and construction hereof, and actions hereunder, or the amount or
recipient of the payment to be made herefrom, shall be binding and conclusive on
all persons for all purposes. In this connection, the Committee may delegate to
any individual, the duty to act for the Committee hereunder. No director,
officer or employee of the Corporation shall be liable to any person for any
action taken or omitted in connection with the interpretation and administration
of the Plan unless attributable to his or her own willful misconduct or lack of
good faith.

            11.   Amendments.

                  a. The Corporation, through the Compensation Committee of the
            Corporation's Board of Directors, reserves the right to amend the
            Plan at any time, in any manner whatsoever, after delivery of
            written notification to all Participants then having an amount
            credited to an Account hereunder of its intention and the effective
            date thereof; provided, however, that no amendment shall have the
            effect of reducing a Participant's Account balance before the later
            of the date of the Compensation Committee's action or the effective
            date of the amendment, as determined in accordance with the
            provisions of the Plan in effect immediately before such date.


                  b. All amendments to the Plan shall be evidenced by a written
            document executed by an executive officer of the Corporation.


            12.   Change of Control. If one of the events listed in Paragraphs
12a to 12d occurs, the Corporation and each participating affiliate shall
contribute to a grantor trust meeting the requirements of section 671 of the
Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, within 30 days thereafter, an amount
equal to the entire Account balance standing to the credit of each Participant
who was a director of or employed, or formerly employed, by them or any of them.

                  a. Any person, entity or group of persons, within the meaning
            of section 13(d) or section 14(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of
            1934 ("Act"), or any comparable successor provisions shall acquire
            beneficial ownership (within the meaning of Rule 13d-3 promulgated
            under the Act) of 20 percent or more of 


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            either the outstanding shares of common stock or the combined voting
            power of the Corporation's then outstanding voting securities
            entitled to vote generally.

                  b. The approval by the stockholders of the Corporation of a
            reorganization, merger, or consolidation, in each case, with respect
            to which persons who were stockholders of the Corporation
            immediately prior to such reorganization, merger or consolidation do
            not, immediately thereafter, own more than 50 percent of the
            combined voting power in the election of directors of the
            reorganized, merged or consolidated Corporation.

                  c. A liquidation or dissolution of the Corporation's then
            outstanding securities, or the liquidation or dissolution of the
            Corporation or of the sale of all or substantially all of the
            Corporation's assets.

                  d. A "Distribution Date" occurs under the Rights Agreement
            dated as of January 11, 1999 between the Corporation and American
            Stock Transfer & Trust Company, as Rights Agent.

            13.   Termination of the Plan. Continuance of the Plan is completely
voluntary, and is not assumed as a contractual obligation of the Corporation or
any participating affiliate. The Corporation and each participating affiliate,
having adopted the Plan, shall each have the right, at any time, to discontinue
prospectively the Plan as to Participants employed or formerly employed by each,
or, in the case of the Corporation, serving as a director, after delivery of
written notification to the affected Participants of such an intention and the
effective date thereof; provided, however, that any such termination shall not
adversely affect a Participant's Account balance as of the date of such
termination.

            14.   Miscellaneous.

                  a. Title to and beneficial ownership of any assets, whether
            cash or investments, that the Corporation or the participating
            affiliates may set aside or earmark to meet their respective
            deferred obligations hereunder, shall at all times remain in the
            Corporation or affiliate and no Participant or beneficiary shall
            under any circumstances acquire any property interest in any
            specific assets of the Corporation or affiliate; provided, however,
            that legal title to any assets set aside in trust shall be in the
            trustee of the trust. Nothing contained in the Plan and no action
            taken pursuant to the provisions of the Plan shall create or be
            construed to create a fiduciary relationship between the Corporation
            or affiliate and any Participant or any other person. Any funds that
            may be invested under the provisions of the Plan shall continue for
            all purposes to be a part of the general funds of the Corporation or
            an affiliate and no person other than the Corporation or affiliate
            shall by virtue of the provisions of the Plan have any interest in
            such funds. To the extent that any person acquires a right to
            receive payments from the 


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            Corporation or an affiliate under the Plan, such right shall be no
            greater than the right of any unsecured general creditor of the
            Corporation or affiliate.


                  b. The right of the Participant or any other person to the
            payment of deferred compensation or other benefits hereunder shall
            not be assigned, transferred, pledged or encumbered except by will
            or by the laws of descent and distribution.


                  c. If the Committee shall find that any person to whom any
            payment is payable under the Plan is unable to care for his or her
            affairs because of illness or accident, or is a minor, any payment
            due (unless a prior claim therefor shall have been made by a duly
            appointed guardian, committee or other legal representative) may be
            paid to the spouse, a child, a parent, or a brother or sister, or to
            any person deemed by the Committee to have incurred expense for such
            person otherwise entitled to payment, in such manner and proportions
            as the Committee may determine. Any such payment shall be a complete
            discharge of the liabilities of the Corporation and its affiliates
            under the Plan.


                  d. Nothing contained herein shall be construed as conferring
            upon a Participant the right to continue in the employ of the
            Corporation or an affiliate in any capacity.


                  e. The Plan shall be binding upon and inure to the benefit of
            the Corporation and participating affiliates, and their successors
            and assigns, and the Participants and their heirs, executors,
            administrators and legal representatives.


            15.   The Plan shall be construed in accordance with, and governed
by, the law of the State of Delaware except to the extent that such law is
superseded by ERISA.


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            IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Corporation has caused this amendment and
restatement of the Plan to be executed and attested by its duly authorized
officers and has caused its seal to be affixed as of the date first above
written.

(CORPORATE SEAL)                        TELEFLEX INCORPORATED

Attest:

/s/ HERBERT K. ZEARFOSS                 By: /s/ STEPHEN J. GAMBONE
Herbert K. Zearfoss                            
Assistant Secretary                     
                                        Date: MAR 24 1999          


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