Specialist service for the provision of opthalmic benefit (letter)
1929-11-26 1929 1920s 3 pages -2- blood-vessels, etc., diabetes and various kinds of poisoning. Hitherto the routine examination of the eye by an ophthalmic surgeon has only been available to the comparatively well-to-do sections of the population, the majority having been unable to afford to pay...
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| Institution: | MCR - The Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick |
| Language: | English English |
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26 November 1929
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| Summary: | 1929-11-26
1929
1920s
3 pages
-2- blood-vessels, etc., diabetes and various kinds of poisoning. Hitherto the routine examination of the eye by an ophthalmic surgeon has only been available to the comparatively well-to-do sections of the population, the majority having been unable to afford to pay the normal fees of the ophthalmic surgeon, and the public has consequently been compelled to resort to the sight testing optician. The present scheme is an attempt to remedy this state of affairs. It may be within the recollection of the Congress that the most recent Government enquiry into the subject, namely the Departmental Committee on the Optical Practitioners' Bill, received a pledge from the British Medical Association that steps would be taken to provide a national ophthalmic service at fees within the means of the general public, and the present scheme is the result of that pledge. The service provided by the Board is available to the following :- 1. All State insured persons 2. Their dependants 3. Non-insured people unable to afford the normal fees of the ophthalmic surgeon, and whose total family income does not exceed £250 p.a. The cost of the Service as you will see from the enclosed literature is very reasonable. For the sum of 18/- the Board provides a private consultation with an ophthalmic medical practitioner, good quality white metal spectacles with any power of lenses and a case. For an additional sum of 7/6 a good quality rolled gold frame is provided, or, for an additional 15/-, total 33/-, one of a number of patterns in imitation tortoiseshell and rolled gold frames may be obtained. Where the patient is a member of an Approved Society utilising the scheme, these prices are subject to reduction by the amount of the Approved Society grant. The ophthalmic medical practitioners on the Board's Panel are nominated by a committee composed of members of the Ophthalmological Soceity [Society] in Great Britain and of the British Medical Association, and the opticians whose duty it is to dispense the prescriptions given by the ophthalmic surgeon, by the Association of Dispensing Opticians, thus ensuring a very high standard of service. The frames and lenses supplied under the scheme are of excellent standard quality, and are almost entirely of British manufacture. The organisation is conducted by a Board composed of representatives of the medical profession and of the optical trade. A proved Societies will be invited to appoint representative
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