Letter: First in the market

Your news feature in the latest Optician journal reporting another Specsavers coup in medical care states that they, Specsavers are the first optician(s) to provide a specialist treatment centre for assessment, diagnosis and treatment of eye diseases.

I should like to bring to your notice that, aside from other many pioneering activities over the past 100 years, my practice, Sheinman Opticians operated a glaucoma treatment centre under the auspices of the NHS, the first of its kind.

Referred patients from optometrists and doctors were examined, triaged and treated by a team 10 members of staff from January 2009. The success of the clinic was based on ‘Choice at the point of referral’ and it quickly became the popular option.