Optical Express - Leeds (Albion Street) Clinic, Airedale House, 77-85 Albion Street, Leeds.Optical Express - Leeds (Albion Street) Clinic in Airedale House, 77-85 Albion Street, Leeds is a Clinic specialising in the provision of services relating to caring for adults over 65 yrs, caring for adults under 65 yrs, diagnostic and screening procedures, surgical procedures and treatment of disease, disorder or injury. The last inspection date here was 7th June 2018 Contact Details:
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1st January 1970 - During a routine inspection
![]() Leeds Albion Street Clinic is operated by Optical Express. Optical Express is a nationwide company providing general optometric services. The clinic provides laser vision corrective procedures under topical anaesthetic, for adults aged 18 years and above.
The clinic has been operational since September 2013 and is based on the sixth floor of an office block.
Part of the clinic is dedicated to the provision of the optometric service which includes sight tests, eye health screening and examinations, pre and post-operative cataract examinations, pre and post-operative refractive surgery examinations. The remaining part of the clinic accommodates the treatment suite where the regulated activities take place. The clinic provides laser vision correction procedures under topical anaesthetic using Class 4 and Class 3b lasers.
Facilities include a laser treatment room where the surgery is completed, surgeon examination room, consultation room and two rooms where patients receive aftercare advice and medicines following surgery.
The clinic was not operational every day, therefore there was only one staff member based there, which was the surgery manager. The surgery manager was on an extended absence of leave for one year from the clinic and another surgery manager was covering. Treatment lists were staffed by a regional surgery team that travelled and covered the Manchester, Liverpool, Sheffield and Newcastle areas who visited the clinic on surgery days.
We inspected this service using our comprehensive inspection methodology. We carried out the announced part of the inspection on 23 November 2017, along with an unannounced visit to the clinic on 8 December 2017.
To get to the heart of patients’ experiences of care and treatment, we ask the same five questions of all services: are they safe, effective, caring, responsive to people's needs, and well-led? Where we have a legal duty to do so we rate services’ performance against each key question as outstanding, good, requires improvement or inadequate.
Throughout the inspection, we took account of what people told us and how the provider understood and complied with the Mental Capacity Act 2005.
Services we do not rate
We regulate refractive eye surgery services but we do not currently have a legal duty to rate them when they are provided as a single specialty service. We highlight good practice and issues that service providers need to improve and take regulatory action as necessary.
We found the following areas of good practice:
Following this inspection, we told the provider that it should make other improvements, even though a regulation had not been breached, to help the service improve. Details are at the end of the report.
Ellen Armistead
Deputy Chief Inspector of Hospitals
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