So its came to pass that I was due for the 5 yearly medical again.
So 5 years ago I booked with one of those doctors on wheels services, anyway it was a bit of a farce, though it was only £56.
So this time, beens that I have had a week off, destroy it yourself etc, I thought I’d book up with my GP, bit pricey £112 but straight forward enough I thought, medical fine, only he tells me straight away, that I’ll have to go to my optician for the eye sight section. Now the doctor on wheels, in a rented office suite could do the eyesight check, so you’d think that a GP in his own consulting room would be kitted up for it.
Anyway I called my optician and he fitted me in today, and as I’d seen them last year, did quick exam, and only charged half, still £25.
So that’s in the post, but I might be doctor on wheelsing in 5 years, though by then that might be GP only !!
Just a whinge !
Your GP is a Doctor not an optician,he might find that the specialised equipment required for a thorough eye test is to expensive taking into account the amount of times it would be used.The days of only reading off a lit up wall chart with letters decreasing the further you get down it is out dated and does not identify any serious problems.
You don`t buy a tool for your car if you know your only likely to use it once and rest of the time it sits in your garage gathering dust or going rusty,you higher it or take your car in to a garage.
lolipop:
Your GP is a Doctor not an optician,he might find that the specialised equipment required for a thorough eye test is to expensive taking into account the amount of times it would be used.The days of only reading off a lit up wall chart with letters decreasing the further you get down it is out dated and does not identify any serious problems.
You don`t buy a tool for your car if you know your only likely to use it once and rest of the time it sits in your garage gathering dust or going rusty,you higher it or take your car in to a garage.
I understand that, though the optician only did a chart test this time, as I’d had a full exam last year, so the chart on the wall although a screen at most opticians nowadays was obviously sufficient. Although I do take account the fact that I am a customer of this optician with a clinical record.
My whinge is mainly about the double standard of doctors on wheels type operations, and using your own GP !
If not had a licence issued after october 2012 then I bet you wish you had changed the photo a couple of months ago to get the one off free 5 years on the medical date …
Doctors use a Snellen chart - I’m amazed that you have managed to find one that says he/she will do a a D4 but can’t do the eyesight element of it.
Just had mine done at my surgery and the chart was hanging on the wall.
I’ve never heard of this before, they can either do the medical or they can’t.
ROG:
If not had a licence issued after october 2012 then I bet you wish you had changed the photo a couple of months ago to get the one off free 5 years on the medical date …
But!..
Send your photo renewal application well before they send you the medical forms (D4) I’d suggest you apply at least three months before the relevant birthday. Once the D4 has been sent you will have to take the medical (I found this out the hard way)
Doing my medical for £48 all in.
gettingamedical.co.uk/hgv-lgv-pcv/
My wife is a GP and dose sight test as part of medical can’t see why a different GP doesn’t TBH
Anyway just my 2 pence worth
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There is a…
Plethora of HGV medical questions on this forum almost on a weekly basis.(two running right now)
Perhaps ‘the management’ could try an entice the HGV medical providers to sponsor the forums instead of the usual parasitic agencies.
That way drivers who still think they have to pay over £130+ can get things done for around the £50 mark.
Socketset:
Doctors use a Snellen chart - I’m amazed that you have managed to find one that says he/she will do a a D4 but can’t do the eyesight element of it.
Just had mine done at my surgery and the chart was hanging on the wall.
I’ve never heard of this before, they can either do the medical or they can’t.
Yep it’s surprised me. Will give me food for thought in 5yrs time.
I would have thought that the DVLA would want the D4 filled out in the same manner, though in practice my optician only ran me through the chart, which could have been done by the doctor.
My normal 2 yearly eye test is alot more thorough, and maybe my optician was drawing on his knowledge of my eyes built up over the past 15 years or so, aswell as running through the chart on the wall.
Cost is not the big issue to me, £137 that the trips to the GP and Optician combined have cost, is less than £28 a year, not that vast a sum to maintain your career.
I was after convenience, my GP is a 20 minute walk from home, as I was off for the week it just made sense.