Plymouth University opens training clinic

Plymouth University has opened a new eye clinic to provide on-campus experience to its third-year optometry students.

Its Centre for Eyecare Excellence (CEE) will offer eye examinations, spectacle dispensing and contact lens care.

The clinic opened last week in advance of an official launch in October, when the optometry school's initial 2011 intake of students reach their third year.

Plymouth has represented a regional drive to bring optometry training to the South West and secured funding from multiple Specsavers. Construction of the new clinic has been entirely funded by the university.

Professor Graham Sewell, head of the school of health professions and associate dean for research in the Faculty of Health, Education and Society, said the CEE served as a not-for-profit training clinic.