2008 list of all laser eye clinics in Great Britain

| May 06, 2008 | Comments 0

You can see a below all the GB laser eye clinics that have an actual building and their own laser – what we can call ‘complete’ self-contained laser eye clinics.

Click on each clinic name to visit their website.

If you would like to more easily see where laser eye surgery is happening near you, click here to see laser eye clinics in the UK, or click here to see laser eye clinics in London.

I have excluded a few others that you can find listed elsewhere but which do not have a dedicated clinic building of their own or have their own laser (some surgeons use a mobile laser delivered on a truck as and when they have a need). Clinics in N. Ireland will also be added presently.

Below are actual permanent clinics that have invested in a premises and laser and offer routine ongoing laser eye treatment on a daily basis. If you find this permanence reassuring you can start with these clinics in your search for a laser vision centre for your treatment. The three big laser chains (Optical Express, Ultralase, Optimax) operate 60 out of the 82 clinics listed here.

Clinic Name Clinics City Telephone
Optical Express 22 UK wide 0870 2202020
Ultralase 20 UK wide 0808 1442020
Optimax 18 UK wide 0870 5143314
Accuvision 2 London, Solihull 0845 0002020
FOCUS Laser Vision 1 London 0845 – 5000 – 500
Advance VisionCare 1 London 0800 6524878
Cambridge Eye Laser Clinic 1 Cambridge 01223 843444
Centre for Sight 1 East Grinstead 0800 0112882
Drayton House Clinic 1 Southport 01704 563279
i: surgery & research centre 1 Hull 01482 339515
Kirkwood Fyfe Laser Eye Clinic 1 Aberdeen 01224 643999
London Vision Clinic 1 London 0800 5874705
Manchester Royal Eye Hospital 1 Manchester 0161 2765198
Midland Eye Institute 1 Solihull 0121 7112020
Moorfields Eye Hospital 1 London 020 75662803
Oxford Eye Laser Centre 1 Oxford 01865 558858
Sheffield Vision Centre 1 Sheffield 0114 2352277
Site-for-Eyes 1 Sunderland 0800 0857755
St. James’s Laser Vision 1 Leeds 0113 2066856
St. Thomas’s Hospital 1 London 01702 586656
Tees Sight Clinic 1 Middlesbrough 01642 222110
Viewpoint Vision 1 Manchester 0161 8480811
Visualase 1 Bolton 0800 7817177
Yorkshire Eye Hospital 1 Bradford 0845 4562021

So there is a clear split between the three large volume chain operators and the independent single clinics.

** The big 3 are owned and managed by business interests and are commercial ventures. They employ clinicians (surgeons and optometrists) and other staff to deliver the laser eye service to customers. They all have a stated goal of expansion to more locations and compete with each other in most locations around the UK.

** The single independent clinics are owned and/or managed by surgeons or optometrists. These are business ventures although can be thought of usually as a committed private practice by an individual or a team of clinicians and without the goal of geographical expansion. They are likely to stay as solo clinics.

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About the Author: Mr. Dave Allamby FRCS FRCOphth is a leading London-based laser eye surgeon. You may have seen him on the This Morning TV show with Phillip Schofield and Fern Britton or read one of several articles in the national press, recently for treating Denise Van Outen, rock giant Rick Wakeman and broadcaster Paul Ross. David is Medical Director at Focus Laser Vision, known as a world-leading clinic in the treatment of presbyopia, or age related loss of close vision. Focus Laser Vision is also London's only clinic to offer next-generation Z-LASIK laser eye treatment for short sight, long sight or astigmatism.

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