Looking at all the posts here it’s obvious we are being led to use private health services which has been the government’s agenda for a long time. You’d be lucky to find a dentist now willing to take on NHS patient. The diabetic eye screening used to include a detailed eye check including eye pressure which takes about 20 seconds. Now since being handed over to private providers they say it’s not part of the screening and I should go to a private optician for that. Under the NHS you get only one check a year. I am on a medication that affects eye pressure yet the hospital clinic refused to refer me for a regular check!