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We have half an hour and then an hour. 0h. ok, come and have a seat here for me, monty. eight—year—old monty is having his eyes tested for the first time in two years. were going to do a little check for you today. last time we saw you was september 2019, so it has been a little while. during lockdown, opticians did stay open but, according to the college of optometrists, around 6 million appointments were postponed. i think i was concerned because we had not been to the opticians for a long...

So itjust seemed a bit, for boy whos onlyjust eight, being really close to the screen, seemed a bit odd. oh, so you are a little bit short—sighted. weve got —1.25 on the right and a —1 on the left. and as with so many children, monty will need a pair of glasses. were definitely seeing a huge increase in the myopia for children and at a younger age. we know that patients who spend a lot of time indoors and a lot of time with near work are more at risk of becoming short—sighted. we have ha...

No, we have an hour and a half at the weekends. we have half an hour and then an hour. 0h. ok, come and have a seat here for me, monty. eight—year—old monty is having his eyes tested for the first time in two years. were going to do a little check for you today. last time we saw you was september 2019, so it has been a little while. during lockdown, opticians did stay open but, according to the college of optometrists, around six million appointments were postponed. i think i was concerned b...

During lockdown, opticians did stay open but, according to the college of optometrists, around 6 million appointments were postponed. i think i was concerned because we had not been to the opticians for a long time. and also, certainly, monty hasjust come out of isolation, so he has spent quite a lot of time playing minecraft with his friends as the only way of sort of chatting to them. and hes been getting closer and closer to the screen as hes been playing. so itjust seemed a bit, for boy whos...