As of 2015, over two million people in the UK are living with sight loss that greatly impacts their daily lives. Opticians have a duty of care to advise and provide solutions to people with visual impairments.
With around 147,000 cases of skin cancer in the UK per year as a nation we have become very good at applying sun cream to protect our skin from harmful UV.
OCT scans are something independent opticians have been doing for quite a few years now so we wanted to write a bit about the importance of having one as part of your routine eye examination.
This is something that contact lens wearers across the globe have been asking about for a very long time, and it’s certainly something I didn’t think I’d see in my lifetime.