Covid: Evolving eye care

Optical practices all over the UK took extraordinary measures to provide essential eye care services during the months of strict nationwide lockdown due to the Covid-19 pandemic. More recently practice life has changed again with greater daily footfall due to non-urgent patients being allowed once more. The current status quo is distinct from both the lockdown and the pre-Covid-19 era; a new normal, albeit one that will likely keep evolving for the foreseeable future.

Before looking at the current operation of three independents, it is worth taking a moment to recall how these practices coped as the pandemic took hold.