The service operates out of Pilgrim Hospital, Boston and Lincoln County Hospital, where orthoptic departments are also based.
Lasers, day case and outpatient facilities are also provided on both these sites and at Grantham and District Hospital.
Additional outpatient services are provided through a wide variety of locations across Lincolnshire and visual fields machines are available throughout.
There are 14 consultant staff who work within the ophthalmology department and who collectively provide a broad spectrum of sub-speciality interests, with designated teams established at Boston and Lincoln hospitals for the north and south of the county respectively.
Leaflets
- Minus-Lens Therapy
- Children’s Low Vision Clinic
- Dacrocystorhinostomy
- How to carry out your dot card exercises
- Children’s Glasses
- Adult Squint Surgery with Adjustable Sutures
- Convergence Insufficiency
- How to do smooth convergence exercises
- How to do stereogram exercises – near and distance
- Correcting a Squint (adult) leaflet
- Correcting a Squint (child) leaflet
- Botulinum A Toxin Injection for Blepharospasm and Hemifacial Spasm
- Two stage surgery for the removal of eyelid lumps
- Eye Removal Surgery
- Eyelid Surgery – what to expect
- Dilating Eye Drops for Children and Babies
- Squint, Lazy Eye and Glasses
- Amblyopia (lazy eye) – Information for parents