Home Visiting Optician

Home Visiting Optician

What does it do?

Home Visit Eye Tests
Dispensing of Spectacles and prescription lenses

Who it is for?

You are entitled to a free NHS sight test at home if you are:

Unable to leave home unaccompanied 
Require a home visit on account of a physical or mental disability

Elidgibility for a free NHS sight test listed below:
Aged 60 or over
Under 16, or under 19 and in full-time education
Registered blind or partially sighted
Diagnosed as having diabetes or glaucoma 40 or over with a direct relative with glaucoma, or you have been advised by an ophthalmologist that you are at risk of glaucoma

Prescribed a complex lensor you or your partner are receiving the following benefits or credits:

Income Support or Income Based Job Seekers Allowance (not contribution based)
Working Tax Credit and are named on a Tax Credit NHS Exemption Certificate Child
Tax Credit and are named on a Tax Credit NHS Exemption Certificate
You are named on a NHS certificate for full or partial help with health costs (HC2/3)Pension Credit Guarantee Credit

Where it is available?

Regional service (Bedfordshire, Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Cambridgeshire, East Sussex, Essex, Greater London, Hertfordshire, Kent, Northamptonshire, Oxfordshire, Suffolk, Surrey, West Sussex).

What it costs:

The service is NHS Funded for those eligible. 

Private Services - Affordable frames and lenses 

How to access or apply for it:

Call us direct on 0800 0806095 or email us on info@homesightonline.co.uk

What to expect then:

Once we received your request we will book you into a convenient test time slot

Classification(s):

Info last updated:

17/01/2022