Health Services

The Glasses Company is a leading online retailer of prescription glasses. For more than 30 years, we have offered stylish glasses for men and women. Our collection of budget and designer glasses are all available at fantastic cheap prices catering for all individuals. The customer chooses the glasses they like from our website, they enter their prescription (obtained from their eye test at their local opticians) and choose the type of lenses they like. The product is often 50% cheaper than the high street. As a UK authorised dealer, all designer frames displayed on our website are 100% genuine. We offer FREE UK delivery on orders over £75.00. We also understand rarely you may not be 100% satisfied. If so, we have 14 days returns policy too. Prescription glasses, reading glasses, glasses for distance use, cheap designer glasses, varifocal glasses, Ray Ban glasses, glasses for fashion use.

Check it Out is a volunteer Group set up to improve young people’s health services on the Isle of Wight to make them more young person friendly.  If you are aged under 19 and need medical advice you can visit this website. You are also able to have a confidential one-to-one online chat with a health professional.

From simple nail cutting to surgery and orthotics. Footsteps can provide you with all your footcare needs. We are HCPC registered caring professionals with over 25 years of experience. With three Island clinics in Ryde, Shanklin and Newport. We can also provide home visits and contracted work for residential care and nursing homes. Guy Napper S.R.Ch. D.Pod.M See Details for our Shanklin Branch See Details for our Ryde Branch

From simple nail cutting to surgery and orthotics. Footsteps can provide you with all your footcare needs. We are HCPC registered caring professionals with over 25 years of experience. With three Island clinics in Ryde, Shanklin and Newport. We can also provide home visits and contracted work for residential care and nursing homes. Guy Napper S.R.Ch. D.Pod.M See Details for our Carisbrooke Branch See Details of our Ryde Branch

Doctors’ appointments aren’t always necessary if you think Pharmacy First >>> Pharmacy First is an Island wide community pharmacy service that allows people who receive free prescriptions to go straight to their pharmacist to receive free treatment for selected minor ailments. Many Pharmacists will be able to offer you a private consultation and are medically trained, so if something is more serious they will direct you to the appropriate health service. This means you can get expert advice and treatment for most minor ailments without the need to make a GP appointment.

District Nurses  manage care within the community, leading teams of community nurses and support workers, as well as visiting house-bound patients to provide advice and care such as palliative care, wound management, catheter and continence care and medication support. DNs are able to prescribe medication to patients depending on individual qualifications. They may be trained to assess patient’s needs for equipment provision such as mobility and independent living aids, medical equipment such as specialist beds and mattresses, as well as guidance in applying for grants and welfare benefits. Their work involves both follow-up care for recently discharged hospital inpatients and longer term care for chronically ill patients who may be referred by many other services, as well as working collaboratively with general practitioners in preventing unnecessary or avoidable hospital admissions. The District Nursing Service operates 7 days a week from 8.00 am to 8.00 pm and offers a wide range of nursing care. They also provide an out of hours on call service from 8.00pm to 8.00am. Teams of District Nurses are based in local communities across the Island. Please visit our web page link below for your area contacts. iow.nhs.uk/our-services/community-services/district-nursing/district-nursing.htm

Visiting podiatry/Chiropody service available from a fully qualified and registered Podiatrist.

Improving the quality of care for children and young people. This project aims to look at how acute paediatric care could be better delivered to serve the needs of children and young people in Dorset, Hampshire and the Isle of Wight. This project will initially focus on children under the age of 5yrs with common illnesses.

Carole Parker Acupuncture Carole is a graduate of the College of Integrated Chinese Medicine, where she worked for ten years, initially as a Practical Skills Tutor, then Lecturer in Chinese Medicine, and subsequently as a Clinical Supervisor. She provides mentoring and supervision to graduates. She is trained in Traditional Chinese Medicine, Japanese Acupuncture and Five-Element Constitutional Acupuncture. She studied Therapeutic Massage with Michael Orchard, and combines massage with muscle energy technique and facial unwinding. Her shiatsu training was with Chris Jarmey, founder of the European School of Shiatsu. In 2007 Carole undertook clinical training at Number One TCM Hospital in Beijing.  She is a member of the British Acupuncture Council and adheres to its Code of Ethics and Practice. She is also a Practitioner Member of the BAcC Investigating Committee.

Christine Smyth Acupuncture I am a qualified acupuncturist practising both 5-element and TCM styles of acupuncture in Cowes and Ryde on the Isle of Wight. Home Visits are Available.