Optician Awards: Patients before profits

Spectacle repairs specialists Spec-Care not only won the Technology Supplier of the Year award at the Optician Awards last December, it was also shortlisted in the Optical Supplier of the Year category. Director Rob Barrow discovered on the same evening that he had been elected to the board of the Optical Suppliers Association (OSA), which he says ‘really got the party going’. The Awards judges praised Spec-Care for putting ‘a particular focus on the patient’. Barrow says: ‘The team had worked extremely hard since the end of lockdown. Our bounce-back plan was to focus solely on the trade and put individual patient care first.’