Ten years ago the only practical way to examine the back of an eye was to use an ophthalmoscope and the view you got, even with an extremely good ophthalmoscope, was very limited. 

In 2000 we bought our first digital Fundus Camera. With the  Fundus Camera we can take images of the back of an eye (the fundus oculi) and digitally store those images on a computer and look at them whenever we want. The advantage of a camera over an ophthalmoscope is that we can keep looking for as long as we want without dazzling the patient and we have got a permanent record to compare the fine detail with next time round. We can also see a much wider area of the back of the eye at any one time.

 These scans are effectively cross-sections through the retina and show up the structures of the back of the eye in incredibly fine detail. The overall thickness of the whole retina shown on the scan is just over half a millimetre.

A monthly payment scheme offering additional benefits, including discount on spectacles, is also available from £6.00 per month.

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