CUES:
URGENT EYECARE CLINIC
CUES (Community Urgent Eyecare Service)
If you experience any of the following:
- New Flashing Lights in Your Vision or New Floaters.
- Red, Uncomfortable Eyes
- New Eyelid Lumps or Swelling
- Sudden Vision Changes OR Loss of Vision
- Foreign Body in the Eye
- Chemical Burn to the Eye
We have a FREE NHS Funded Urgent Eyecare Clinic that can deal with your problems today!
If you are experiencing any of the issues above please call us on 01384340101 or Whatsapp our optometrist directly, so that we can get you the help you need, TODAY.
REQUEST AN URGENT APPOINTMENT
WHAT HAPPENS AT THESE APPOINTMENTS?
CUES is different for every patient and this will depend on what the problem is.
Common tests conducted include:
- Measurement of visual acuity
- Slit lamp examination of the eye (anterior or posterior)
- Intraocular pressure reading
- Vital dye instillation
- Foreign body removal
- OCT eye examination
If you need to have your pupils dilated for the assessment, we will tell you at the time of booking. If this is the case you should not drive to the appointment, and will not be able to drive again until 6 hours after the appointment.
If it is determined that your eye condition needs management with medication, our optometrist can now prescribe any ocular medication needed and manage you autonomously.
CORNEAL FOREIGN BODY REMOVAL
We are able to handle ocular foreign body removal under CUES appointments. This allows patients to attend for an emergency eye appointment without having sit for hours in A&E
Our optometrist, Dan, has experience removing corneal foreign bodies, and has undertaken WOPEC certification and university training in ocular foreign body removal.
Generally corneal foreign bodies are gently removed with a needle, but occasionally can be removed with foam PVA spears.
At these appointments we use topical anaesthetics which means you should not feel any discomfort during the procedure.
