View from the High Street: How the pandemic changed community optometry

Satvinder is enjoying a well-deserved break and I’m delighted he’s asked me to share a view from the high street in Scotland as restrictions ease and we seek to reconnect with one another. As I reflect on the past two years, the world of optometry is very different in some ways and yet unchanged in others.

We have always taken infection control seriously. Hand-washing, antibacterial gel and cleaning of reusable equipment is a routine procedure for us. However, triaging patients remotely, wearing PPE, and having colleagues take lateral flow tests, have been different and are likely to be staying with us for the foreseeable future.