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Should Thinner Spectacle Lenses be Covered on the NHS for Those Registered as Sight Impaired?

Uncategorized / By accidentalhipstermum / blind, dispensing optician, eye health, eyes, hi-index lenses, NHS help, optician, optics, optometrist, partially sighted, sight impaired, spectacle prescription, spectacles, vision, visual impairment

Contrary to popular belief, my time spent working as a dispensing optician wasn’t just spent fitting children’s specs and reassuring every patient over 40 that literally everybody feels weird when they first try varifocals. A good portion of my career was spent advising, reassuring and doing lots of lens thickness calculations for those who were sight […]

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Dementia Awareness

Dementia Awareness Week is upon us, but awareness itself is still lacking; it’s estimated that around 400,000 people in the UK suffer from the condition without even realising it. The Alzheimer’s Society are trying to increase awareness in order to help people recognise the early signs in themselves and family members. It can be an