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Look Local: Barry

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This week Look Local heads to Barry, Vale of Glamorgan to find out what's occurring in eye care in the post-industrial Welsh town, home of Gavin & Stacey in the BBC sitcom. Saul Sebag reports

'General practitioner'

‘Barry is a county town of the beautiful rural Vale of Glamorgan,’ said James Davies, OO and partner of Arbuthnot Opticians, which has been run by its current owners since 1975.

He said: ‘We're blessed with a stunning coastline and blue flag beach but are also only 20 minutes from Cardiff.'  Barry’s size and rural location means the town relies on support from secondary eye care facilities in nearby Cardiff. He said: ‘Barry is some distance from the closest ophthalmology department and wherever possible we try to keep patients in primary care.’

Davies added: ‘We have developed great relationships and trust between our general practitioners and pharmacy colleagues to treat our patients in the most suitable manner.

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