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SERVING OUR COMMUNITY

The Clinic is committed to providing eye care to people who have difficulty accessing current services and who are specially disadvantaged. The Melbourne Optometry Clinic provides a broad range of clinical services for the community and provides low cost optometry care for people who have low incomes and endeavours to reach out to the community to provide services to those that are disadvantaged.

The Clinic’s services have been decentralised through establishment of regional clinics to assist in access for the Melbourne metropolitan community. The extensive low vision clinic network provides very good access throughout Victoria for low vision services.

More than 40 percent of the patients attending the Clinic are from non English speaking backgrounds and half of these require language assistance for services. Professional interpreters, optometrists who speak second languages and friends and relatives of patients attending the Clinic assist our patients with language and cultural care issues.

The Clinic continues to develop service models to provide outreach care to improve access and the delivery of care to those with particular needs. The Homeless Persons Eyecare Program with the Royal District Nursing Service (RDNS) provided care at a number of community agencies in metropolitan Melbourne. The clinic at the Victorian Aboriginal Health Service and the Visiting Disability Service also provide important outreach services.

The Clinic also plays an important role in providing specialised optometry care for patients referred by optometrists, medical practitioners and other health care professionals.

Additional information regarding the services of the Clinic are available from the links below or menu on the left.