Optician Index: May 2014

After good results last month, May has seen fractional monthly decreases in some of our key performance measures but the generally positive trend is continuing. All of our indicators are higher than the same month last year apart from total sight tests and volume of bi/trifocal lenses which are both less than one Index point lower. Annual growth is still negative for our clinical measures and most of the dispensing but positive for our financial benchmarks.

This month our report focuses on the financial factors of practice management and we make comparisons between the turnover per eye examination and the dispensing rate by practice turnover size.