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UK Laser Eye Clinic Maps Are Here!

To help you find a UK laser eye surgery clinic, here are two maps. Just click on each marker to see the name and telephone number of each clinic or click on the name to go straight to their website.

7May2008 | Dave Allamby | 0 comments | Continued
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2008 list of all laser eye clinics in Great Britain

A list of all the GB laser eye clinics that have their own laser for patients looking at having laser eye surgery vision correction.

6May2008 | Dave Allamby | 0 comments | Continued
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LASIK prices go up at Optimax while headline price falls to match Optical Express

Optimax, one of the UK’s big 3 laser eye chains, has made a significant price hike for their wavefront LASIK treatment, the UK’s most popular type of vision correction. Patients will now pay an additional £480

30Apr2008 | Dave Allamby | 4 comments | Continued
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Ultralase laser eye surgery prices go up even further

Ultralase laser eye surgery chain has increased prices again. Their price for Intralase LASIK including the upgrade for wavefront based correction is now £1,945 per eye.

29Apr2008 | Dave Allamby | 0 comments | Continued
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Nearly 80% of people want sub £1,000 price LASIK laser eye surgery

If you want, click here to see a price comparison of various prescriptions at several laser eye surgery clinics. Please ensure that you check the final price you will be charged at any clinic you are evaluating prior to going ahead.

28Apr2008 | Dave Allamby | 0 comments | Continued
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LASIK Poll - how much do you want to pay for LASIK?

The results of the first 50 people to poll our blog are now in!
Nearly 4 out of 5 people want to pay no more than £1,000 per eye for their LASIK laser eye surgery. This price is considerably lower than most clinics are actually charging for laser vision correction per eye.
Despite headline grabbing prices of [...]

22Apr2008 | Dave Allamby | 0 comments | Continued
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Optical Express has target to double in size

Optical Express is planning a huge recruitment campaign to find 1,000 optometrists, opticians, optical assistants and laser vision counsellors in preparation for a market share push that will see a doubling in its number of practices.

20Apr2008 | Dave Allamby | 0 comments | Continued
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Ultralase buys Allclear Clinic in N Ireland

The acquisition is Ultralase’s first since it was purchased by 3i in Feb 2008 for £174.5m and the Allclear clinic will now be Ultralase’s 20th UK treatment clinic. The purchase is part of an expansion plan that includes a decision to open three more UK consulting rooms and two further laser eye treatment clinics.

19Apr2008 | Dave Allamby | 0 comments | Continued
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Why don’t patients care about which eye laser they are treated with?!

Laser eye surgery patients just don’t seem to care!! Why?! Laser vision results have got better and better over the past 15 years - and this is mainly because the lasers have got a lot, LOT better! … We have published all these laser eye surgery results on our www.focusclinics.com website (see them here: http://www.focusclinics.com/treatments_results.php The clear winner so far is the WaveLight Allegretto laser from Germany.

19Apr2008 | Dave Allamby | 0 comments | Continued
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What’s important when choosing a laser eye surgery clinic? Part 2

There are FOUR key points to look at when choosing a clinic:
1. The laser technology
2. The surgeon
3. The clinic
4. The price
Let’s look at these in more detail:

1. Laser technology
The improvements in success rates and safety of laser eye surgery, including LASIK and PRK, have been mainly down to improvements in sophistication of the laser technology. [...]

9Mar2008 | Dave Allamby | 0 comments | Continued
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People confused about laser eye surgery prices!

I got an email this week from a Mr. John Andrews, who was confused about LASIK laser eye surgery pricing.
John wrote:
Having visited your site I am not clear what criteria you used to determine the cost of treatment. What level of myopia do you treat for £295 per eye assuming a thick cornea and no [...]

8Mar2008 | Dave Allamby | 2 comments | Continued
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What’s important when choosing a laser eye surgery clinic?

It is quite confusing for people looking at where to go for their laser eye surgery treatment. Especially so in London where there are many laser eye clinics to choose from.
In other cities you can usually find one or more of the big three chains: Optical Express, Ultralase and Optimax and these centres are probably [...]

8Mar2008 | Dave Allamby | 0 comments | Continued
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WaveLight laser owner Alcon boosts sales by 20%

WaveLight AG, which manufactures the FDA-leading Allegretto eye laser system used at FOCUS Laser Vision, was acquired by the major Swiss company Alcon in November 2007.
Alcon, Inc. (ACL), a manufacturer of pharmaceutical and surgical equipments, has posted a 6.1% increase in profit for the fourth quarter from the same period in 2006, boosted by a [...]

8Feb2008 | Dave Allamby | 0 comments | Continued
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How much would YOU pay for laser eye surgery?

Join our poll on the right side of this page!

1Feb2008 | Dave Allamby | 0 comments | Continued
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LASIK prices - what it REALLY costs.

See our featured article on LASIK prices and what the real costs are at various clinics.
You can see the £395 headline price from Optical Express and Optimax is not what you will pay at all when you want modern wavefront LASIK. Those prices are for non-wavefront treatments and you have to pay extra if you [...]

26Jan2008 | Dave Allamby | 0 comments | Continued
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How Much Should You Pay for LASIK?

Here you have a comparison of what LASIK costs at London LASIK clinics. You can see 4 typical prescriptions and what each clinic charges - and you will see the huge variation in LASIK laser eye surgery prices!
For example, for a simple -1 dioptre correction there is an enormous variation in LASIK cost. The lowest [...]

25Jan2008 | Dave Allamby | 22 comments | Continued
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What is it like to have Z-LASIK laser eye surgery?

You can hear Bella Roberts talking with me just 24 hours after her breakthrough Z-LASIK laser eye treatment. You can read more about Z-LASIK in my previous posts, and compare to Bella talking about her LASIK just before having the surgery!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmZZ6wWiBH8
Why have Z-LASIK all-laser eye treatment? Why have FOCUS Laser Vision spent more than £300,000 [...]

19Jan2008 | Dave Allamby | 3 comments | Continued
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Ultralase sold for £174 million to 3i

British private equity firm 3i has agreed to buy Ultralase from Spain’s cosmetic surgery group Dermoestetica. The Spanish group said the price was 174.5 millon pounds (238 million euros, 348 million dollars). There is an exclusivity period on this deal until January 30 2008. 3i made an approach to Dermoestetica just recently in November 2007.Dermoestetica [...]

9Jan2008 | Dave Allamby | 1 comment | Continued