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The practice

Fifty-two years on the same street, under four owners.

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★★★★★Trusted by 200+ local customers

An unhurried examination, and nothing sold from the chair

A sight test here is a clinical appointment that happens to take place in a shop, and we keep those two things apart. Forty minutes are booked for it, the images go on the screen in front of you, and the dispensing conversation happens afterwards with the prices already published. The original 1974 display case is still in the front window — most of what is in it is not for sale.
By the numbers

What that adds up to

1974
Trading at 9 Micklegate, without a break
5
GOC-registered clinicians, all named with their numbers
40
Minutes booked for a full examination
3
Working days for single vision, glazed on our own bench
61%
Of our sight tests are NHS funded
The register

Everyone here, and their registration

Every clinician here is on the public register, and every number below is searchable.
Ruth ElleryMCOptom · DipTp(IP)
Principal optometrist and independent prescriber. Glaucoma co-management and the urgent eyecare clinic.
01-24518Optometrist
Adaeze NwankwoMCOptom · PhD
Optometrist. Paediatric refraction and myopia management; runs the axial length monitoring programme.
01-31907Optometrist
Tomasz BielakMCOptom
Optometrist. Specialist contact lenses — keratoconus, post-graft and orthokeratology.
01-29740Optometrist
Priya RavalFBDO
Dispensing optician and practice manager. Complex and high-index dispensing, and prism work.
D-16204Dispensing optician
Callum HedleyFBDO
Dispensing optician. Occupational and sports lenses, and the glazing bench.
D-19883Dispensing optician
Sara WhitfieldMCOptom
Optometrist. Low vision assessment and domiciliary visits.
01-33612Optometrist
The practice is registered as a body corporate with the regulator.

What forty minutes looks like

“A sight test is not a transaction with a pair of glasses at the end of it. It is a clinical examination that happens to take place in a shop. Keeping those two things straight is most of the job.”
Ruth Ellery MCOptom DipTp(IP) · principal optometrist · GOC 01-24518

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