Bill Harvey: Highway song

The RNIB clinic I work in is temporarily closed to move location. After several decades at its St Pancras site in London, the clinic closed at the end of last year and is set to reopen nearby at the end of February. So, despite the odd train strike, the focus has been on home visits.

According to the National Audit Office, around 814,000 people in the UK received home care or supported living services just prior to lockdown, and figures are rapidly returning to this level. Domiciliary eye care has, in the past, enjoyed a somewhat unfair reputation. Scenes of elderly people in a Henry Ford production line shuffling past a retinoscope and focimeter used to spring to mind. And comments such as ‘remember to check that the chair is dry before you sit down’, did not help.