Home Eye Examinations

Eyecare at home

Home Eye Examinations

We offer a premium service to patients who cannot visit their local opticians for a regular sight test, both privately and through the NHS.

Private appointments are available for patients at home and also in nursing, residential and care homes.

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In Partnership with Opticall Yorkshire

Opticall Yorkshire is a Yorkshire based independent optician with over twenty years’ experience in providing optical care.

Sarah and Caroline offer a premium service to patients who are unable to visit their local opticians for a regular sight test, both privately and through the NHS.

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They visit patients in the privacy of their homes and also in nursing, residential and care homes.

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They will do a complete evaluation of your prescription leading to a conclusion of what could be the best optical solution for you, be it spectacles, contact lenses, overnight vision correction or laser eye surgery.

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Both Caroline and Sarah have completed courses in 2020 in Dementia (Level 3), Safeguarding, Infection Prevention and Control, Information Governance, Health, Safety and Welfare, Consent, Conflict, Equality and Resuscitation.

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Left: Sarah; Right: Caroline

Your at-home appointment

During the sight test, we will conduct a thorough eye examination and carry out all the necessary checks including pressure and field tests for glaucoma. We check the health of the whole eye with a portable slit lamp and ophthalmoscope, along with a full refraction (sight test) to determine whether there has been a change in your sight and if new glasses are recommended.​

We carry a full range of frames for patients who require new glasses to try on during a home visit. The lenses will be ordered and once they are ready, we will come back for a second visit to ensure the glasses fit correctly and are comfortable for the patient, making any adjustments at the patient’s home where possible.

Who is eligible for a FREE at-home eye test?

Patients are entitled to a FREE NHS sight test at home if they can no longer visit a High Street Optician unaccompanied and they fit the following criteria;

• Age 60+
• Registered blind or partially sighted
• Diagnosed with having diabetes or glaucoma
• Age 40+ and with a direct relative with glaucoma
• If you've been advised that you are at risk of glaucoma
• If you are prescribed a complex lens

If you do not qualify for a free NHS sight test, but like the idea of the optician coming to visit you at a mutually convenient time within your own home, then we offer private sight tests.