Visibility Scotland’s Patient Support Service
Visibility Scotland’s Patient Support Service at the Princess Alexandra Eye Pavilion offers tailored practical and emotional support to patients attending hospital eye clinic appointments. The service is open to all patients of the Princess Alexandra Eye Pavilion regardless of where they live.
If you are living with sight loss, our friendly team can help with:
· making the most of your vision
· the registration process
· reading and navigation
· technology and assistive apps
· benefits and entitlements
· emotional support and much more.
Our team can also make direct referrals to the Rehabilitation and Mobility Services provided by Sight Scotland and to Social Work Locality Teams.
Patients can visit the third floor to meet with a member of our team from Monday to Friday, 9:30 AM to 4 PM.
Low Visual Aid Clinic
This clinic is one of the specialised clinics at the PAEP.
It is run by an optometrist and an ophthalmologist. Here patients with visual loss are assessed for magnifiers and registration. We provide information on the benefits of registration and if eligible we complete the necessary documents.
We also assess for and provide magnifiers to patients in whom it will benefit.
This clinic can be referred to via SCI gateway. Please see how to refer (Link) for further details on how to refer to a specialist clinic.
Severely sight impaired (Blind) registration is based on the following criteria:
- Visual acuity 3/60 or less with a full visual field
- Visual acuity between 3 / 60 and 6 / 60 with a severe reduction of field of vision
- Visual acuity of 6 / 60 or above but with a very reduced field of vision, especially the inferior visual field
To be certified as sight impaired (partially sighted) the following citeria is used:
- Visual acuity of 3 / 60 to 6 / 60 with a full field of vision
- Visual acuity of up to 6 / 24 with a moderate reduction of field of vision
- Visual acuity of 6 / 18 or better with a large visual field defect.
