Comprehensive range of Optometry services available:

Eye Examination

• NHS and Private
• Fee for Private Eye Examination £70 with Mr Dunstone, £55 with Mr Giles and £45 with Ms Zagvozdina, to include digital retinal imaging and OCT scan when appropriate
• Separate Fee for digital retinal photography £15
• Separate Fee for OCT scan £25
• Fee for Diabetic Retinopathy Screening NHS + £35
• Extended NHS examination £35; this includes, as appropriate, digital imaging, OCT scan, contact tonometry, pachymetry, full threshold visual fields, red eye/dry eye assessment, referral refinement, pupil dilatation.
• NHS subsidy towards eye care available to some patients, including the following categories:
    Age under 16
    Age 16— 19, in full-time education
    Age 60+
    Patients with diabetes or glaucoma (or family history of glaucoma)
    Income Support and other low-income categories. Please enquire for full details of NHS availability
• Eye examination, Contact Lens aftercare and 12 months support: £110 with Mr Dunstone and £95 with colleague
• Copy of Prescription £7
• Spectacle dispensing fees- single vision £40, multifocal £80 (included in price of spectacles)

Spectacles
Carefully selected choice of frames available to suit all ages and pockets, please feel free to view but also do let us know if you have a specific requirement. We will be pleased to order frames on approval, with no obligation to purchase.

Comprehensive advice given to help select the best lens type to suit your needs. Many lens manufacturers used including Rodenstock and Zeiss. Constant improvements in design offer increased performance and thinner lenses.

Top manufacturers used, including:-
Rodenstock - top quality German manufacturer of frames and lenses

Silhouette.com - amazing rimless frames

Oliver Goldsmith - British designer of spectacle frames

Charmant - for Elle, Esprit and TruTrussardi

Pennine - for College, Black Label and Mazzimo

Contact Lenses
Caring service to fit patients with the optimum lens type. Many patients who were previously unsuitable can now wear contact lenses due to technological advances. Contacts also available for presbyopes, that is, patients with different prescriptions for distance and near.

Main contact lens types - soft or rigid gas permeable (GP):-

Soft Lenses

Daily Disposable

• No cleaning of lenses necessary as thrown away each night
• Can be worn each day or occasionally for particular sport or hobby
• Also now available for astigmatism at extra charge

Examples of our prices:

Ciba Focus Dailies with Aqua Comfort  £16 per box (30 lens pack) or £64 for 90 pairs

Acuvue 1 Day (30 lens pack) £22 per box or £85 for 90 pairs

Air Optix Aqua £17 (3 pack)

Monthly Disposable

• Fresh lenses each month
• Convenient cleaning regime
• Excellent value
• Available for astigmatism (toric) or cosmetically tinted

Continuous Wear

• Recently developed Silicone based lenses
• Worn continuously for 30 days and nights

Rigid Gas Permeable (GP):

• The modern “hard” lens
• Still the best option for some eyes
• New materials with higher degree oxygen permeability available

Examples of prices:

Quasar Dk60 £50 per lens

Contact lens manufacturers web sites:
www.bausch.com
www.acuvue.co.uk
www.cibavision.co.uk

Low Vision

• Advice and special aids for those with poor sight
• Provided within NHS at The Ipswich Hospital or Privately in Hadleigh

Reading Difficulties

• Optometric assistance often possible for children struggling to read
• Screening for Meares-Irlen syndrome (coloured overlays)

Home Visits

• Eye Examinations for the housebound
• Available within the NHS at no charge for those entitled to NHS test (see above) and living in close proximity to Hadleigh
  

Useful contacts

www.advancevisioncare.co.uk - refractive surgery, Harley Street, London

www.nuffieldhospitals.org.uk - for various proceedures locally, including refactive surgery by Mr Ramsey in Bury St Edmunds

www.lasik-eyes.co.uk - independant site for refractive surgery information

www.college-optometrists.org - see information for the public for all eye care issues and numerous links

www.lazyeyesite.org -Mr Vivians lazy eye/squint surgery information

www.cataract-surgery.info - Mr Kiel's website

www.suffolkpct.nhs.uk - includes information for patients with poor sight - click on Services, then choose I-L for Low Vision

Information for people with poor vision:

www.rnib.org.uk - wide variety of services for individuals with low vision

www.look-uk.org - assistance for young people with visual impairment

www.largeprintbookshop.co.uk - online provider of large print books and audio tapes

www.actionforblindpeople.org.uk - national organisation with local representatives. Advice and support to people with visual impairment especially regarding benefits, employment and information technology. Also offer reasonably priced holidays for individuals with a sight problem.

www.maculardisease.org - national organisation providing advice and suport for people ith macular disease

www.glaucoma-association.com - national organisation concerned with glaucoma

www.partsight.org.uk - Partial Sight Society

www.calibre.org.uk - provider of listening books

www.guidedogs.org.uk - information about guide dogs