Can anyone recommend a specialist in Oxford?

[Tina Gandy]

Hi! I need to find a keratoconus specialist in the Oxford area, and wondered if any members had any recommendations I could follow up? Many thanks. [/url]

[GarethB]

Hi Tina

Welcome to the forum.

Are you after a lens fitter in Oxofrd or a consultant?

If you need to see a consultant, then your GP should be able to refer you, I think in Oxford it would be the RAdford infirmary eye unit?

For an optician that knows about KC KC Friendly Optometrists; there is David Spicer Optometrists in Botley Oxfordshire.

Hope this helps.

Gareth

[Tina Gandy]

Thanks Gareth. I'm after a consultant and someone who fits lenses. My current chap does both. I hadn't realised there were optometrists who could manage the complexitiy of a keratoconus fitting. It would be great to have the names of people who are considered to be good and professional.

[GarethB]

Tina,

Some can, but my personal preferance is a hospita with a lens clinic. They ahve access to a wider range of lens fitting kits so hopefully can offer a more rounded service.

The community based optom running a business can not always afford the range of fitting kits they would like. However they are not necesserily restricted to the time they can dedicate to lens fitting as the hospital may have.

I think they both have there advantages and disadvantages in equal measure.

Ask your GP for a referal to the hospital and that should sort the consultant side on the NHS. The GP can also make the referal privatly too.

[John Smith]

Tina,

I think that Ken Pullum (who is an optometrist who specialises in scleral lenses - mainly for keratoconics) works occasionally at the Radcliffe in Oxford.

It would be worth enquiring there.

[Tina Gandy]

Thanks everyone for your advice. Went to the JR this morning and they were great. Apparently the man for KC is Martin Leyland - he also works at Moorfields and has a clinic in Oxford every Monday. Think I may have cut down my 6 hours round trip down to an hour and a half so am very happy!!