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Guidance: NHS general ophthalmic service fees and optical voucher values from April 2024

Department Of Health

January 6
10:10 2025

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The letter provides guidance for:

  • all staff dealing with general ophthalmic services
  • the hospital eye service
  • optometrists
  • ophthalmic medical practitioners

It sets out:

  • NHS sight test fees from 1 April 2024
  • NHS optical voucher values from 1 April 2024
  • hospital eye service charges from 1 April 2024
  • continuing professional development payment for 2023, payable in 2024 with details of how to claim during the claim window of 1 July to 31 October 2024
  • the grant payable to supervisors of pre-registration trainees from 1 April 2024
  • NHS sight test fee for sight tests undertaken in special educational settings from 20December 2024

Updates to this page

Published 26 March 2024
Last updated 6 January 2025 +show all updates
  1. Updated to add 'The General Ophthalmic Services Contracts (Payments for sight-testing services provided in a special educational setting) Directions 2024'.

  2. First published.

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