High Street Buying of Contacts
Starbright,
According to the message I have seen from the Medics, we can buy our own lenses through our local optician:
[FONT='Arial','sans-serif']If aircrew are at risk of running out of CLs before Mar 09 then they are authorised to buy their currently authorised CLs, at their own expense, from a local provider. SMOs or aircrew are to contact DCA Ophthalmology’s BMEC Secretary for details of the make of their CLs and their latest prescription. [/FONT]
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Chetna advised me that we would need to provide proof of our prescription - SMO should be able to obtain this through Birmingham if you do not have it yourself. By the way, these lenses are not special to aircrew. Joe used to order then from a catalogue just like anyHigh Street optometrist - so they should not have cost us any more than normal. This ordering, billing and processing the repayment ended up being a full-time job - not what was intended when the system was introduced.
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