Retinopathy Vanished

[Deleted member 21371]

Do you have your screening in a hospital clinic?

I have a mixture now.
Originally it was just optician, now I've moved area, it seems to be more of a mix and match arrangement, so far I've have the screening at a local health centre, (during lockdown last year) but still awaiting field of vision at a local opticians, who weren't doing the screening during the lockdown, (they were on the list along with the NHS centres normally, but not the NHS preferred option, so that may not come back in the future).
I prefer the optician route given the choice, as it's reviewed independently by the NHS, and two opinions are always better than one.

 

[trophywench]

Field of vision's nowt to do with retinopathy screening. It is for our driving licences though. Haven't had my FoV checked for a number of years, though I have had normal eye tests, the optician I've used for a while said this time (last November) they don't check that now.

 

[grovesy]

I have a mixture now.
Originally it was just optician, now I've moved area, it seems to be more of a mix and match arrangement, so far I've have the screening at a local health centre, (during lockdown last year) but still awaiting field of vision at a local opticians, who weren't doing the screening during the lockdown, (they were on the list along with the NHS centres normally, but not the NHS preferred option, so that may not come back in the future).
I prefer the optician route given the choice, as it's reviewed independently by the NHS, and two opinions are always better than one.

As the Screener for the Retinopathy Service has only ever commented on the quality of the photo, and had to repeat very occasionally to get a better image.
The Opticans ones I have had have as part of my routine eye tests, never get reviewed anywhere else.

 

[Deleted member 21371]

Field of vision's nowt to do with retinopathy screening. It is for our driving licences though. Haven't had my FoV checked for a number of years, though I have had normal eye tests, the optician I've used for a while said this time (last November) they don't check that now.

They still do for us here. We are treated very well in the areas I've lived in.

 

[trophywench]

I had to have it done at my ordinary opticians appointments but then they stopped doing it some years ago - before I actually got cataracts - and then when I had each of them sorted, it was one of the checks they did before signing me off the hospital's opthalmology books. That was good cos I fully intended to drive again but as it happens, I haven't.