EyeCare Information

Search our detailed eyecare guides for advice and information about caring for your sight, the choices that are available to you and the benefits of entrusting your eye health to registered professionals.

You could be entitled to a free NHS sight test

You may also be entitled to a voucher towards the cost of any spectacles or contact lenses prescribed.

• Aged 60 or over
• Under 16 or under 19 still in full time education
• Live in Scotland
• Diagnosed as having diabetes or glaucoma
• 40 years of age or over with a close relative with glaucoma
• Registered blind or partially sighted
• In need of complex lenses (you may also get an optical voucher)
• Income Support or Income Based Job Seekers Allowance
• Working Tax Credit/Child Tax Credit (and are named on a NHS Tax Credit Exemption Certificate)
• Under 16 or under 19 and still in full time education
• Named on a valid HC2 or HC3 certificate
• In need of complex lenses
• You or your partner claim Income Support, Income Based Job Seekers Allowance, Working Family's Tax Credit/Disabled Person’s Tax Credit (and are named on a NHS Tax Credit Exemption Certificate)

Your local optician will advise you on NHS entitlements based on your circumstances.