We’re delighted to share that Alex and Sarah’s elder daughter, Emma, has graduated from Cardiff University with a 2:1 degree in Optometry and Vision Sciences. Following in her parents’ footsteps, 22 year old Emma graduated after a three year course and will begin a pre-registration job in Merthyr Tydfil in September, further to additional studies […]
Please can you help us to spread the word?
In order to keep everyone safe from coronavirus, we are allowing an hour between patients so that we can clean everything thoroughly. The impact of this is that we can now only see seven patients per day, instead of the 14 that we would see before. As you can appreciate, this reduction has a significant […]
It’s Move More Month!
Every day in June, we’ll be following the Move More Sheffield’s activity plan that is designed to get us all moving more whilst helping our mental health during lockdown. Download the plan here if you want to join in and keep everyone in the loop with what you’re doing by using the hashtag #MMM2020. To […]
Please note that we are operating a locked door policy
In the interest of keeping us all as safe as we can, we are operating a locked door policy and only carrying out essential work. Please phone us for more information and we will triage your enquiry. Woodseats 0114 274 8582 Crosspool 0114 266 7066 We will phone the patients already booked to check […]
Covid19 Policy
We are taking measures to help protect staff and public during this unprecedented time. We aim to have a 15-minute gap between appointments to reduce contact between patients and visitors. We will sanitise surfaces between appointments, with antibacterial wipes. We ask that patients do not attend early to reduce time in our waiting area. We […]
Fencer Phoebe gets GB call up for the European Championships
For those of you who have been following the progress of our fencing sponsee Phoebe Newton-Hughes, we hope that you’ll be as excited as were are to read the latest news from Phoebe’s Mum, Ann: “Soooo…having qualified for the European Championships and being selected as reserve the call came late Thursday night and Feebs is […]
Alex is a volunteer ‘pilot’ for a revolutionary community cycling project
The founder of Alex Gage Family Optometrist has joined a new scheme to make cycling accessible to all. Alex Gage is one of a team of 15 volunteer cyclists (also known as pilots) with Cycling Without Age (CWA) Sheffield who take elderly care home residents out in a cycle trishaw named “Rhubarb” around Sheffield’s local […]
Fencer Phoebe’s been selected to represent GB
Further to our recent blog update re our fencing sponsee, Phoebe Newton-Hughes, we’re absolutely over the moon to share this update that her mum posted on facebook today: So after two months back in training and some mixed results Phoebe has made her way up to 6th in the British U20 rankings and has been […]
Welcome to the team Sylvia, Jo and Margaret
We’re delighted to welcome three new(ish!) faces to the teams at Crosspool and Woodseats. Sylvia Moffatt, Jo Bambrough and Margaret Green have joined us recently as Eyewear Specialists to work across both practices. Sylvia and Jo join the team at Crosspool from Vision Express and outreach work respectively, with former Scrivens employee Margaret sharing her […]
We’re raising awareness of the dangers of smoking on eye health
We’re backing a nationwide campaign to raises awareness of the link between smoking and sight threatening conditions. The team is helping the Association of Optometrists to promote its Stub it out campaign by displaying posters and leaflets in our practices in Woodseats and Crosspool. Stub it out is the Association’s first national eye health campaign […]