For the customers of a Haverfordwest opticians, GP visits for eye care prescriptions will soon be a thing of the past.
The co-director of Specsavers Haverfordwest, Andy Britton, has passed the Postgraduate Certificate in Independent Prescribing for Optometrists at Cardiff University’s School of Optometry and Vision Sciences. Once fully qualified, he will be able to prescribe eye treatments for people – saving patients a GP visit.
Mr Britton is now able to recommend treatment to a patient’s GP, then once he completes some hospital-based clinics and passes a final exam he will be able to prescribe directly.
Mr Britton continues: ‘For now, the patient will still have to go to their GP for the prescription, but I can take some of that pressure off by having already examined them and recommending treatment.