Look local: Glasgow’s one-stop eye care shops

With the NHS funded eye tests in Scotland, practitioners in Glasgow are seeing the fruits of regular clinical contact with long-term patients as dispenses tinkle back out the shop door.

Director of independent practice Currie & Quirk, in the affluent west end, Gordon Quirk says: ‘Local optics has changed quite dramatically over the past 10 years, private eye exams only make up 20% of appointments. The introduction of fully funded NHS eye examinations in Scotland has developed its practices into the first point of call for any eye conditions or concerns, rather than the GP or local hospital eye department.