17-01-2017, 02:22 PM
Something that concerns me about this SpecSavers (or any other similar) contract is the accuracy of their interpretation of their results.
A few years ago I went for a routine examination at SpecSavers where they automatically start by measuring the intra-ocular pressure.
After the eye test proper, the optician told me that there was a problem with the pressure test result being high and they wanted to repeat it. Again it was high and I was told they would be writing to my GP. In the course of time I got an appointment to see a consultant.
The consultant measured the pressure and told me that, yes, it was a little high but well within acceptable limits. He then said that, in the litigious world we live in these days, the High Street opticians tend to work to slightly tighter margins on the basis that it is safer (for them) to fail a patient who, like me, turns out to be perfectly normal rather than the other way round ...
I've continued to have my eyesight routinely tested - at the same branch of SpecSavers - every year since with no further queries about the pressure.
A few years ago I went for a routine examination at SpecSavers where they automatically start by measuring the intra-ocular pressure.
After the eye test proper, the optician told me that there was a problem with the pressure test result being high and they wanted to repeat it. Again it was high and I was told they would be writing to my GP. In the course of time I got an appointment to see a consultant.
The consultant measured the pressure and told me that, yes, it was a little high but well within acceptable limits. He then said that, in the litigious world we live in these days, the High Street opticians tend to work to slightly tighter margins on the basis that it is safer (for them) to fail a patient who, like me, turns out to be perfectly normal rather than the other way round ...
I've continued to have my eyesight routinely tested - at the same branch of SpecSavers - every year since with no further queries about the pressure.
