OUR SERVICES FOLLOWING THE CHANGES TO GOVERNMENT RESTRICTIONS ON MONDAY 21ST JULY 2021

I wish to summarise Paul Whiteman Optometrists position on supporting our patients and the wider community who may need our advice and assistance following the changes to Government restrictions on Monday 21st July 2021.

Eye care services

We will be continuing to provide eye care services from 19th July 2021 onwards.

Anyone who feels they have a serious eye problem and wishes to seek our advice but is unhappy about attending our practice for examination should use one of the ‘Contact Us’ methods below. We are able to give you advice or conduct a ‘remote triage’ consultation via phone, Zoom, FaceTime or Skype.

Spectacle wearers

Spectacle wearers who require assistance e.g. broken, damaged, lost spectacles should contact us, to explain their problem using one of the ‘Contact Us’ methods below initially before attending our practice.

Contact lens wearers  

Patients who have eye problems related to contact lens wear should remove the contact lenses immediately and Contact Us for advice and assistance. 

For those contact lens wearers who we currently supply contact lenses to either via Home Delivery or by Collection From  Practice please read the following changes we have made to the way we will be delivering your contact lens supplies. We have decided to make these changes to ensure your safety and that of our staff.  

For those who normally collect their lenses from our practice-Collect From Practice patients, we propose, from now on, to arrange delivery of them directly to you at your chosen Delivery Address rather than to our practice.

For those who normally receive their lenses via Home Delivery we would like you to confirm your Delivery Address as some of our patients are not currently residing at their normal Delivery Address.  For this reason we are asking ALL of our contact lens patients to go to our Contact Lens Orders page (also see header menu above) and complete the relevant delivery confirmation form. Without this we cannot ensure timely delivery of your lenses. It is currently taking 6 working days for lenses to be delivered following their despatch by the manufacturer.

In the meantime, we would like to assure you that all our contact lens suppliers have put in place secure and efficient delivery systems to ensure the continued supply of your lenses.

CONTACT US

We have set up a dedicated email address to use during the Covid 19 confinement period.

EMAIL:   cv@pwoptometrists.com

The email address above should be used to contact us in preference to any other you may have used in the past. This address it is being monitored more closely than any other of our email addresses.

TELEPHONE:  01737 223202

This telephone number is manned from 9.00 am – 5.30pm Monday to Friday. Calls outside this period will be directed to an external answerphone.   

Finally, we thank you for your patience…

Please be assured we have been listening to the views of you, our patients, during the last few weeks and it is our intention to reduce the safety measures we have in place as soon as it is deemed safe to do so by our professional bodies.

We thank you for your ongoing support.