Our Care Philosophy

Two patients an hour is a philosophical position expressed as a scheduling decision. Almost everything that goes wrong in eye care goes wrong because of time: a retinal periphery not fully examined, a question not asked, a child hurried, a symptom not followed up.

Patients understand their own eye health considerably better when they have seen it. Retinal images, corneal maps and OCT scans are put on screen and explained rather than summarised into a sentence.

It also changes the conversation about treatment. A parent looking at their child's own corneal topography map is in a different position from one being told what it showed.

Myopia control slows progression. It does not stop it. Specialty lenses restore vision in keratoconus. They do not halt the condition. Chronic dry eye is managed rather than cured. LASIK corrects distance vision and does nothing about presbyopia.

Every one of those sentences is less appealing than the version without the caveat, and every one of them is the version that leaves a patient able to judge whether treatment is working.

The retina is the only place in the body where blood vessels and nerve tissue can be observed directly. Diabetes, hypertension, high cholesterol, thyroid disease and autoimmune conditions all leave visible signs there, sometimes before anything else has declared itself.

So an eye examination here includes assessment for systemic conditions, and findings are reported to your physician where they have significance beyond the eye.

This practice does not claim that blue light filtering lenses protect eye health, because the evidence does not support it. It does not describe retinal imaging as cancer screening. It does not publish a star rating, because the figures across its own properties contradict one another and none can be verified.

Anything that cannot be substantiated does not appear on this site.