We all know our vision is important and that means looking after our eye health should be a top priority. But did you know one in five people say that their eyesight deteriorated during lockdown*? While some habits - such as increased screen time - have stuck...
Well it has been a strange year! We have been open the whole period, providing emergency eyecare through the first lockdown, but since then able to see all patients, just needing to give priority to emergency cases. We are now open as normal-though needing to provide...
Well it has been a strange year for us all! Now approaching the anniversary of when we started to become affected by this pandemic, we are still here looking after eye health of our patients. We remained open the whole time-through Lockdown 1 as an emergency hub for a...
There have been a few rumours and talk about the wearing of contact lenses through this unprecedented period of the Covid-19 virus. Here is some of the extract from a detailed report that confirms there is not a risk of wearing contact lenses-just good hand hygiene as...
Hi everyone. I do so hope you are keeping well and safe through this strange period of time. We are open for essential and emergency eye care through this period to look after our patients and anyone else who is unable to visit their own optician through either...
ORIGINAL , UNIQUE AND DISTINCTIVE FRAME DESIGNS. There are thousands upon thousands of different frame styles on the market. The majority though seem fairly similar-so we have tried to resource frame designers from foreign design shows that are far more...
BEST FITTING SPECS EVER? I always love the comment made by patients when they say that their current set have been the most comfortable pair ever! This is not always the case-but we should take great care in trying to achieve this whenever possible. I know I...
Visual stress is a very common problem. You do not need to have any power correction for the eyes yet still suffer from visual stress-whether when just reading or using computers or can be in general vision. We carry out ORTHOSCOPICS assessments on the eyes to...
Myopia (short sightedness) is getting progressively worse around the world at an alarming rate. The World Health Organisation are behind all forms of research to see if we can reduce or halt this progression as is not good in the long term if people become...