Community award for optometrist

Optometrist Irshad Ibrahim won the prize of Community Optometrist of the Year at the National Primary Care awards earlier this month.

The awards were held at the DoubleTree Hilton in Tower Hill, London, with Ibrahim praised for providing outstanding patient experience and showing ‘excellent consultation skills and leadership in the community’.

Ibrahim works at independent optical practice SI Opticals, in Leicester. He said: ‘Having only qualified as an optometrist two years ago I am extremely delighted and humbled to receive this national award, for the work my team and I provide in Leicestershire for the community.’