Equipment Required
As part of WGOS services, mobile service providers will need to ensure they hold the following list of equipment as a minimum:
- Distance test chart
- Near reading test
- Trial frame & accessories and/or phoropter-head
- Retinoscope
- Distance & near BV test
- Focimeter
- Direct ophthalmoscope
- Slit lamp
- Equipment to enable binocular fundus view
- Goldman-type applanation tonometer
- Vision testing equipment suitable for testing children
- Stereopsis test
- Colour vision test
- Amsler chart
- Visual field screener which must be:
- Automated
- Threshold-related
- Capable of producing a shareable field plot
- Eyelash removal instruments
- Foreign body removal instrumentation
For further information regarding mandatory equipment requirements, please contact nwssp-primarycareservices@wales.nhs.uk