‘Post-code lottery’ causes confusion

I was interested to see Chris Hunt’s reply to the article by Moneo. For the last year my records have been reviewed several times by the NHS along with their optometric adviser.

We have been advised among other points that we must apply very strict NHS sight testing intervals, less frequent than are published on the NHS public website, or the GOS sight test intervals published by the Optical Confederation.

In particular, we are advised that we can no longer see the over-70s more often than every two years unless there are symptoms that suggest that there may be a change in refraction. We cannot see them for instance because it is a good idea because they have large soft drusen or VMT for example, annually, even though an over-70 year-old with a family history of glaucoma or someone ‘at risk’ of glaucoma can be legitimately seen every year.