No-one provides more eye tests at home in the UK than Healthcall Optical Services

Our equipment is the most up-to-date available and designed specifically for home eye tests. The patient's home is easily transformed into a consulting room, allowing our visiting opticians to perform a full and comprehensive eye test at home.

Our teams carry a large variety of spectacle frames, ranging from budget styles (provided free to those entitled to an NHS voucher) to the latest designer frames, plus all types of lenses at highly competitive prices. This allows us to provide all types of prescription spectacles following a home eye test.

When the spectacles are ready they are delivered to the patient’s home and expertly fitted by one of our dispensing opticians or trained clinical assistants. Our assistants have undergone training by the Royal National Institute for the Blind People (RNIB), so they fully understand the problems experienced by those suffering from low vision and ways in which they can be helped.

Free eye test at home?

NHS Eligibility Criteria

If you can answer “yes” to any of the following and you are unable to leave your home without help, then you may qualify to have a free NHS sight test in the comfort of your own home. You also may be entitled to help with the cost of glasses:

Are you:

60 years of age or over?
Diagnosed with diabetes or glaucoma?
Considered to be at risk of glaucoma (as diagnosed by an ophthalmologist)?
40 years of age or over and the parent, brother, sister, son or daughter of a person diagnosed with glaucoma?
Registered blind or partially sighted?
Eligible for an NHS Complex Lens Voucher (your optician will advise on your entitlement)?
Claiming benefit (Income Support, Income based Jobseeker’s Allowance, Pension Credit Guarantee or receiving tax credits and meeting qualifying conditions)?
On a low income and named on a valid HC2 (full help) or HC3 (partial help certificate)?

The Importance of Eye Care

There are a range of medical conditions that will affect your sight and if identified early these can be treated and managed. Poor eye sight can be a major contributor to falls in the home which can have a devastating effect on the person and those who care for them. Here are 4 common eye conditions:

1. Glaucoma

Glaucoma is the name for a group of eye conditions in which the optic nerve is damaged at the point where it leaves the eye. This nerve carries information from the light sensitive layer in your eye - the retina, to the brain where it is perceived as a picture

2. Cataracts

Cataracts are opacities (cloudiness) in the eye lens. Light passes through the lens to reach the back of the eye so changes in the transparency of this lens affect the vision.

3. Macular degeneration

This is the most common cause of sight loss in the over 60’s and occurs when the part of the eye responsible for central vision – the macula - is damaged.

4. Diabetic retinopathy

Diabetic retinopathy is the term used for the changes that can happen at the back of the eye as a consequence of alterations in the network of blood vessels in those suffering with diabetes.