Information on the optometry department at St Paul’s Eye Unit at the Royal Liverpool University Hospital
Optometrists examine your eyes to detect any problems with your vision and general eye health and then treat any problem, often with glasses or contact lens.
We’re on the Lower Ground floor of the new Royal Liverpool University Hospital.
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Refraction service This service assesses your vision and uses different tests to spot and correct any refractive error (a problem with the way light moves through your eye) using a range of specialised techniques.
We also carry out visual assessments before your consultant will consider you for partial sight or blind person registration.
Here we fit, adjust, supply and repair glasses and other optical appliances. We dispense all types of glasses, but specialise in difficult, complex and extreme prescriptions and special frame requirements.
Our dispensing service has an open policy, which means that anyone who has a current prescription can have their glasses made up by our service. We accept NHS glasses vouchers issued either by the hospital or your optician.
This service assesses and fits patients with contact lenses and provides the necessary aftercare. We specialise in conditions where contact lenses are clinically necessary.
We assess visually impaired patients with the aim of helping them to maximise their vision using distance and near low vision aids. We also supply low visual aids and typoscopes (reading guides), and advise on lighting contrasts and other things that might affect visually impaired people.
We also perform assessments of visually impaired patients who are seeking work to identify their special equipment needs.
Here we provide a wide range of vision assessment services for a variety of research purposes.
We carry out ultrasound investigations prior to intra-ocular lens surgery. Ultrasound measurements are used in computerised calculations, which help surgeons to predict the optical refraction outcome of lenses to be used in cataract surgery.