Eye Care Plans wins Work & Pensions contract

Around 2,000 independent practices celebrated earlier this month after ASE Eye Care Plans won a four- to six-year contract for its affiliates to provide eye care for the 125,000 staff of the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP).

ASE’s managing director Jonathan Kent said it was excellent news for its dedicated independent network of opticians. The company had achieved a 97.5 per cent rating in the DWP’s process of selecting a new service provider. Most of the multiples’ corporate divisions had competed for the business, he said.

The staff will be able to get a restricted range of single-vision, bifocal and varifocal spectacle lenses as long as they incorporate a correction for intermediate VDU viewing distances.