Eye Tests

[Sospan]

Are we entitled to get professional eye tests from the RAF every so many years ?

 

[Odie]

Are we entitled to get professional eye tests from the RAF every so many years ?

I get an annual test at the local optician and claim the money back through the Med Centre's pharmacy. If you need glasses and can justify them for display screen working then, IIRC, you can get a grant of £60.

 

[Sospan]

I get an annual test at the local optician and claim the money back through the Med Centre's pharmacy. If you need glasses and can justify them for display screen working then, IIRC, you can get a grant of £60.

How do you know you need glasses without an eyetest ? I don't mind paying for it myself but I would like to know it was an entitlement.

 

[IeuanMawr]

You take the eye test first. Get the money back for that and you claim the cost of glasses using a different form. You wont pay for the glasses until you collect them.

I had to get the Optician to sign my DSE form a few years back. Just ring the med centre on monday and ask. If you aren't a regular DSE user (do you sit infront of a pc or not for a few hours a day) then you're going to have to fork out for glasses yourself.... unless you want those funky Joe 90 issue glasses.

 

[Sniffer]

Usually the Med Centre has an arrangment with a local optician, go to the pharmacy in the Med centre and ask for a form. Take this to the optician with you.

The optician will complete this and details include whether you need specs for just DSE use.

If you already wear glasses or will need glasses for general reading as well as DSE (books etc) then you will have to fork out for your own glasses.

How anyone can just need glasses for DSE but not for any other type of reading, God only knows, but that is the requirement for the RAF to pay up. Funny that eh?

As has already been mentioned they will contribute £60 towards glasses if you do qualify and you dont need to get them from the optician who does your test.

You claim this via the Med Centre and not on JPA.

Hope this has helped.

 

[Sospan]

Cheers for the replies guys, just to clear things up... If I go for an eye test and they say my eyes are fine and I do not require glasses I cannot claim the cost back ?

 

[4everAD]

You can claim the money back whatever, don't forget it's not just to see if you need glasses it also checks the health of your eyes so is classed as medical not cosmetic so to speak.

 

[Odie]

How do you know you need glasses without an eyetest ? I don't mind paying for it myself but I would like to know it was an entitlement.

Jeez, your eyesight must be bad. DT_Xtremez_42:

I said I have an annual eyesight test that I claim the costs back through the Med Centre. It's the results of that that would tell me that I need glasses which is a separate funding issue - hence the two bits of info were in two sentences.

 

[Sospan]

Cheers fellas, that answers my questions.

 

[Cooheed]

Free eye tests in Jockland. If you don't want defence specs you'll have to pay for your frames. Speccy barstards DT_Xtremez_26:

 

[FOMz]

I got my eyes tested thanks to the RAF and took my perscription I had done in the Opticians down to Specsavers and got two pairs for the price of one and only coughed out £50.....

 

[needsabiggerfuse]

Get your prescription and go to these people. http://www.glassesdirect.co.uk/

or if you fancy something like this, go to http://www.retrospecs.co.uk/

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[lilij]

How do you know you need glasses without an eyetest ? I don't mind paying for it myself but I would like to know it was an entitlement.

Hi

You have to make an eye test first in order to wear glasses. I recently made an eye test at Leightons Opticians and I was very happy with the professional advice that I received. There you can choose from the wide range of glasses that the opticians offer at very competitive prices.
Here is a link to very good opticians: http://www.leightonsopticians.com/

 

[Mike Oxlong]

Nice necro and a plug too! Kiss my face!

 

[muttywhitedog]

Hi

You have to make an eye test first in order to wear glasses. I recently made an eye test at Leightons Opticians and I was very happy with the professional advice that I received. There you can choose from the wide range of glasses that the opticians offer at very competitive prices.
Here is a link to very good opticians: http://www.leightonsopticians.com/

Any chance a mod can remove this blatant plug and the subsequent posts (inc mine), so that the thread can be confined to history again?

 

[Dilbert]

Hmmm....

Hmmm....

Are we entitled to get professional eye tests from the RAF every so many years ?

I'm still wondering where to go for an amateur eye test...?

DT_Xtremez_30: