{"id":42394,"date":"2023-06-22T10:20:24","date_gmt":"2023-06-22T10:20:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mylocaloptician.co.uk\/?p=22326"},"modified":"2023-06-22T10:20:24","modified_gmt":"2023-06-22T10:20:24","slug":"special-schools-free-sight-test-provision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bedotdev.com\/mylocaloptician\/special-schools-free-sight-test-provision\/","title":{"rendered":"Special Schools- Free Sight test provision"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>ABDO response to free sight tests for special schools<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Association of British Dispensing Opticians (ABDO) has issued the following response to government\u2019s and NHS England\u2019s announcement on free sight tests for special schools.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-8351\" src=\"https:\/\/primaryhealthnet.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Max-Halford-ABDO-Clinical-Lead-300.jpg\" alt=\"Max Halford ABDO\" width=\"300\" height=\"301\" \/><br \/>\nMax Halford FBDO CL, ABDO Clinical lead says, \u201cWe welcome the government\u2019s announcement on the future of the special schools service which has removed a degree of short-term uncertainty. The concept of optometrists and dispensing opticians working as a clinical team to deliver care in the school setting continues to be transformational for so many of these children.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is a good news story for all of the children who\u2019s access to eyecare cannot be delivered in traditional settings and we congratulate SeeAbility and sector colleagues who have worked tirelessly to keep the eyecare of children at special schools on the governments agenda and we look forward to working with them to ensure the long-term success of this service\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Read the ministerial statement on sight testing in special schools <a href=\"https:\/\/abdo.cmail19.com\/t\/t-l-ztdtikd-jtkltytlih-y\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Funded Special School Sight Test, ABDO&#8217;s response <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28397,"featured_media":22327,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2957],"tags":[2997],"class_list":["post-42394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-vision-news","tag-learning-difficulties"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Special Schools- Free Sight test provision - My Local Optician<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"ABDO response to government\u2019s and NHS England\u2019s announcement on free sight tests for special schools. 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