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JohnEGreen said:
I was referred for both eyes but the clinic only sorted one eye the one with the worst cataract as the NHS would only fund the one operation I have since learned that the second operation would be funded if you met certain criteria and not being able to have a normal diabetic eye test would infact fall within the requirements for that criteria but as I have said no follow up check was carried out because spec savers would not be paid for it.
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@JohnEGreen
This is the current situation I am finding online today.

Online, I am finding that...
"Yes, opticians are typically paid by the NHS for conducting post-operative cataract eye checks, which are usually scheduled within 6 weeks of surgery, to assess the visual outcome and identify any potential complication"

Also online, I am finding that...
"Yes, Specsavers is a major optician that provides NHS eye and hearing health services, delivering a significant portion of NHS eye tests and glasses in the UK.

Here's a more detailed explanation:
  • NHS Services:
    Specsavers is a leading provider of NHS eye and hearing health services, with NHS eye care available in all their stores.

  • Extensive Services:
    They offer a wide range of NHS services, including sight tests, diabetic retinal screening, hearing assessments, and hearing aid fitting.

  • Urgent Care:
    Many Specsavers stores also provide urgent care for minor eye injuries or illnesses. "
Another search says this...
"Specsavers is contracted by the NHS to provide a wide range of eye and hearing health services, including eye tests, hearing assessments, and fitting of hearing aids, as well as services for minor eye conditions and diabetic retinal screening.
Here's a more detailed breakdown of their NHS-related services:
  • Eye Care:
    • Eye Tests: Specsavers provides NHS-funded eye tests, covering the cost for those who qualify.

    • Diabetic Retinal Screening: They conduct diabetic retinal screening, a crucial service for early detection of eye complications in people with diabetes.

    • Glaucoma Monitoring: Specsavers offers glaucoma monitoring services.

    • Treatment for Minor Eye Conditions: They are contracted to provide treatment for minor eye conditions.

    • Pre and Post Cataract Operation Appointments: Specsavers provides pre and post cataract operation appointments. "
    My experience so far, is that the first opticians did not get back to me after numerous attempts of me trying via their Contact Box in their website. Yet they had been sent paperwork from the hospital about me and my post op cataract check up appointments.
    I then contacted the hospital, and I got an email offering me a second opticians who would give me my cataract postop checkup. And would communicate by text and send me an appointment by text. I accepted it. And the hospital said they would send all my paperwork for the post operative cataract checkup to the second opticians which incidentally was Specsavers in Liverpool....Nothing arrived from Specsavers, despite the Hospital being in communication with Specsavers, And so. I communicated with Specsavers via their Contact Us box in their website. But no one responded from Specsavers to do my post up cataract check despite them being contacted by the hospital and being sent my paperwork .


    The eye hospital have now sent me an appointment but with the eye hospital this time.
 
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My cataract surgery was carried out by a private clinic funded by the NHS and spec savers had no contract with the private clinic even though the surgery was funded by the NHS there fore spec savers would not do the follow up check and I am assuming that it why the spec savers optician just ignored the letter I gave them from the clinic requesting a follow up check most annoying.
 
JohnEGreen said:
My cataract surgery was carried out by a private clinic funded by the NHS and spec savers had no contract with the private clinic even though the surgery was funded by the NHS there fore spec savers would not do the follow up check and I am assuming that it why the spec savers optician just ignored the letter I gave them from the clinic requesting a follow up check most annoying.
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My friend's cataracts were done by a private clinic funded by the NHS. And she was told to go back to the optician's who referred her for her post operative cataract checkup. The optician said to my friend she got paid for every referral. I would make an assumption, obviously this is only an assumption, that in the money the opticians were paid included the post operative cataract checkup they were meant to provide.
I had a look at the private clinic's literature, and it basically said go to A&E if you had any problems, which I would expect.
But what concerned me was within the site there were a lot of dissatisfied people asking questions, about things they were not happy with about their operation, and were not getting answers for, but this did not come up in general search on the Internet.
I believe there should be some 'Body' who keeps a check on all this, regulatory body, who keeps an eye on these things. There does not apparently appear to be one at the moment...
I am sorry that optician treated you the way they did.
 
Good morning everyone on what appears to be the start of another sun shiny day here in the dark and dangerous north.
5.4 this a.m.
Yesterday I found out first hand about something called a Gender Reveal Party (our eldest granddaughter has gone mad!). Oh well, another thing to be avoided - like bridal showers, baby showers and other associated nonsense that are probably imported from loony land where things are all sparkles and flim flam to get the mesmerised to part with hard earned dosh. The price of one admission is your mind - a line in a song prophesied back in 1968 and probably assisted by some Timothy Leary powder.
Meanwhile, back at the ranch - two items on the packing list for our trip to France next week - Curly Wurlys and Starbursts. Our niece has the outward appearance of an adult - but like everyone else - deep inside is that child wondering where the tasty treats are.
Art bit - I made an ink dip pen out of a no longer useful brush - pulled what remained of the bristles out and shoved half a cocktail stick into the metal hole. Well, there you go.
May your day be merry and bright - but don’t dig out the artificial tree just yet! I should probably make koffy.
 

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Good Morening Ladies and Gentlemen on this national bin day.

Blood sugars this morning were 6.5

Mrs J is about to go foraging at the local supermarket. Unfortunately me, me’s and myself are banned from “ helping “ her with the weekly shop. Apparently the question “ do we really need this? “ annoys her. Also when Mrs J stops to chat to someone Mrs J knows, I helpfully get items off the shelves and put them in the person Mrs J is talking to shopping trolley, again Mrs J doesn’t see this as being helpful.

Now I must wish you all a jolly spiffing day, remember to smile and look for the humour in every situation.
 
dunelm said:
Good morning everyone on what appears to be the start of another sun shiny day here in the dark and dangerous north.
5.4 this a.m.
Yesterday I found out first hand about something called a Gender Reveal Party (our eldest granddaughter has gone mad!). Oh well, another thing to be avoided - like bridal showers, baby showers and other associated nonsense that are probably imported from loony land where things are all sparkles and flim flam to get the mesmerised to part with hard earned dosh. The price of one admission is your mind - a line in a song prophesied back in 1968 and probably assisted by some Timothy Leary powder.
Meanwhile, back at the ranch - two items on the packing list for our trip to France next week - Curly Wurlys and Starbursts. Our niece has the outward appearance of an adult - but like everyone else - deep inside is that child wondering where the tasty treats are.
Art bit - I made an ink dip pen out of a no longer useful brush - pulled what remained of the bristles out and shoved half a cocktail stick into the metal hole. Well, there you go.
May your day be merry and bright - but don’t dig out the artificial tree just yet! I should probably make koffy.
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That cocktail stick shoved into the metal hole of a former brush looks like jolly good idea. Now I have a use for those cocktail sticks I have just unearthed in my front room tidy up. By the way @dunelm I think the painting with the cocktail sticks is great...
 
dunelm said:
Good morning everyone on what appears to be the start of another sun shiny day here in the dark and dangerous north.
5.4 this a.m.
Yesterday I found out first hand about something called a Gender Reveal Party (our eldest granddaughter has gone mad!). Oh well, another thing to be avoided - like bridal showers, baby showers and other associated nonsense that are probably imported from loony land where things are all sparkles and flim flam to get the mesmerised to part with hard earned dosh. The price of one admission is your mind - a line in a song prophesied back in 1968 and probably assisted by some Timothy Leary powder.
Meanwhile, back at the ranch - two items on the packing list for our trip to France next week - Curly Wurlys and Starbursts. Our niece has the outward appearance of an adult - but like everyone else - deep inside is that child wondering where the tasty treats are.
Art bit - I made an ink dip pen out of a no longer useful brush - pulled what remained of the bristles out and shoved half a cocktail stick into the metal hole. Well, there you go.
May your day be merry and bright - but don’t dig out the artificial tree just yet! I should probably make koffy.
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Why did I bother buying myself all those brushes, when you can do that with a cocktail stick?
 
6.8 at 02.45 today (I was exhausted last evening so went to bed at 23.00. I knew it would be an early morning.

Up into the 8's before I went out and apart from a blip (6.0) while I was out, in the 8's it has remained.

Weather here is cold, wet and windy. Not a great day to be out and about. Rather think it's a good day for dozing in the chair in front of whatever is on tele. No point trying to read my book - I'd be asleep before I read half a page.
 
gennepher said:
That cocktail stick shoved into the metal hole of a former brush looks like jolly good idea. Now I have a use for those cocktail sticks I have just unearthed in my front room tidy up. By the way @dunelm I think the painting with the cocktail sticks is great...
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Thank you @gennepher. Here it is compared to two other dip pens
 

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Good morning everyone on what looks to be a day of weather wonder here in the dark and dangerous north.
6.1 this a.m. after a restless night wrestling knights.
Can’t recall much about yesterday although all the spring planting is complete and the lawns have been cut.
Last minute requests from my mother to take on Monday - an ink brush pen and a fine tipped white acrylic pen. I have a spare ink brush pen and cartridges that my mother gave me a few years ago so she can have it returned, well traveled and a 0.7mm tipped pen should, if the auguries are true to form get delivered tomorrow.
Today - two lots of washing already on the line, furtively looking towards the clouds and we are taking one of Mrs Miggins’ brothers to lunch. He doesn’t get out much.
Must get a travel bag out for our trip to Bordeaux on Monday. I will have to pack, but not until Sunday. Just an under seat bag each - we have three days worth of clothing at my mothers and have been trained in the art of working a washing machine with French instructions. Just like instructions in English really - but in French and equally confusing.
Art bit - more ink scratching with my home made dip pen. I think that I will add some colour to it later today.
Hope your day goes well.
I simply must make koffy.
 

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6.4 this morning.
Relaxing in the conservatory with a coffee. Bonnie's trainer is arriving at 10am. Am actually quite tired, but really happy that I got loads of work done yesterday before classes in Norwich. It means a much more relaxed day today.

I think that l have won a battle with Mr K over Health and Safety. Have persuaded him to get a quote from a company to clean the solar panels on our roof. He had intended to do it himself. I am sure that sometimes he thinks he is Superman.

He was going to put a ladder on top of the solid roof of our conservatory - climb up it and clean the panels. No problem he said.

Last year the father of one of my class members did exactly the same thing. The ladder slipped and he ended up breaking his back and his hip. He was lucky to survive but is still disabled by those injuries.

Sometime today someone from the small family run company will visit to give us a quote. Not likely to be more than £100 which sounds reasonable for a tricky job. I would happily pay much more to keep Mr K safe.
 
7.5 at 04.20 today.

Quite right, @Krystyna23040, a conservatory roof is no place for Mr K. Professionals have the knowledge and the tools to do the job and £100 is pretty reasonable.

When we need jobs done on the roof, Neil and Alistair do go up and do them but they are younger and have been doing these jobs for years, on solid roofs. Tom used to take them up on our, fairly shallow, roof when they were fairly young to get them used to heights. He also used to take them up the masts of ships we were all on, when they were 10 and 12. The idea was to let them know that heights were nothing to be afraid of. The time will come when they are getting past it too and I hope they have the sense to stop when they are less able. Both still in their 50's as yet, so they should still be able for a few years yet, although I'm not so sure about Alistair, he already has some arthritic problems.
 
dunelm said:
Good morning everyone on what looks to be a day of weather wonder here in the dark and dangerous north.
6.1 this a.m. after a restless night wrestling knights.
Can’t recall much about yesterday although all the spring planting is complete and the lawns have been cut.
Last minute requests from my mother to take on Monday - an ink brush pen and a fine tipped white acrylic pen. I have a spare ink brush pen and cartridges that my mother gave me a few years ago so she can have it returned, well traveled and a 0.7mm tipped pen should, if the auguries are true to form get delivered tomorrow.
Today - two lots of washing already on the line, furtively looking towards the clouds and we are taking one of Mrs Miggins’ brothers to lunch. He doesn’t get out much.
Must get a travel bag out for our trip to Bordeaux on Monday. I will have to pack, but not until Sunday. Just an under seat bag each - we have three days worth of clothing at my mothers and have been trained in the art of working a washing machine with French instructions. Just like instructions in English really - but in French and equally confusing.
Art bit - more ink scratching with my home made dip pen. I think that I will add some colour to it later today.
Hope your day goes well.
I simply must make koffy.
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Effective art bit @dunelm
 
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