The ‘Scandal’ in the article is that the majority of optometrists in England and Wales are dependent on the sale of frames and lenses to subsidise tests and therefore eye health, that optometrists often feel a conflict of interest between the commercial and medical and also that in Scotland there is a system where optometrists are paid a fair amount for doing a good job – why can’t England and Wales have the same system?
My name is Nick Morgan, I wrote The Great Eye Test Scandal that appears in the December issue of Reader’s Digest.
The ‘Scandal’ in the article is that the majority of optometrists in England and Wales are dependent on the sale of frames and lenses to subsidise tests and therefore eye health, that optometrists often feel a conflict of interest between the commercial and medical and also that in Scotland there is a system where optometrists are paid a fair amount for doing a good job – why can’t England and Wales have the same system?
When I started writing the article I did not know I had glaucoma but in the process of the research I found different optometrists gave me different results and advice. At the time I found this alarming but after more research I found that the early stages of glaucoma are notoriously difficult to diagnose and this is why – once again – England and Wales should have the same system as Scotland where a higher number of tests and even secondary appointments are budgeted for.
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