Welcome to Eye Outpatients clinics at Fairfield General Hospital.
Our department hold a wide variety of clinics where the Ophthalmologists & Ophthalmic Practitioners see patients within an outpatient setting.
You can have diagnostic tests, face to face appointment and investigations to make decisions about your care on the day.
Please note that you may need to have your eyes dilated, If required you will not be able to drive after the appointment as your insurance is void, therefore you may need to arrange to be collected.
If possible, please come to the department alone as space is limited.
Our specialities within Ophthalmology are:
- Glaucoma
- Medical Retinal
- Corneal
- Diabetic Screening
- Paediatric Ophthalmology
- Cataract
- Nurse Led Intravitreal Injections
- Nurse Led Fundus Fluorescein Angiograms
- Viteo Retinal
- Orthoptist
We hold multiple clinics, and the Ophthalmologists & nurse practitioners may need to diagnose and treat you, in order to do this they rely on diagnostic tests which our technicians & nursing teams carry out.
For more details on the diagnostics we perform please see link to leaflet on this page.
Once you arrive at reception you will be booked in by our wonderful reception team who will check that your details are correct, if you would like to receive your letter communication in a more accessible format such as large print, braille please ask the reception team who will add this to your information.
Please note that you may need to have your eyes dilated, If required you will not be able to drive after the appointment as your insurance is void, therefore you may need to arrange to be collected.
Please do not arrive more than 10 minutes prior to your appointment time.
If possible, please come to the department alone as space is limited.
Please bring details of any medicines you are currently taking.
Your investigations will start with a visit into one of our vision lanes with one of our team, here you will have a sight test (which is repeated on every appointment) to monitor for changes in your vision. If you wear glasses for distance you will need these for this test.
Following your visions, you may be required to have an eye pressure check this will be carried out in the vision lane with a handheld device and takes about one minute.
Following the vision test, if the Doctor/ Ophthalmology Practitioner requests that you need any further diagnostic testing, these will be carried out prior to seeing them and they will review them online on our Ophthalmology system.
How long will it take?
Appointment times can range from 30 minutes – 2 hours.
Main Outpatients Department - Brunskill Suite - Fairfield General Hospital
Patients are referred into Ophthalmology either through GPs or Optometrists. The referrals are sent electronically and are triaged by Doctors /Practitioners to the correct speciality.
Once accepted they are added to the waiting list with the time scale according to the urgency of the condition for an appointment.
All appointments are scheduled by the Booking and Scheduling department, for any queries please contact them by calling 0161 778 2233.