Home Eye Test in Winsford
A full eye-health examination and the complete Abra & Co eyewear experience, brought to your home in Winsford and the surrounding area — by the same team you’ll find at our Winsford Eyecare practice on Delamere Street.
More Than a Basic Home Eye Test
Most domiciliary sight tests are built around speed: a quick check of your prescription and a small selection of plain frames. Ours isn’t run that way. Every home visit in Winsford gets the same unhurried eye health examination, advanced eye health screening, and full styling consultation you’d get walking into our Delamere Street practice — just delivered at your kitchen table instead.
This matters because a home eye test should never mean a reduced one. Whether you’re after a straightforward NHS check-up or want help choosing a frame you’ll genuinely be pleased to wear, that choice stays yours throughout.
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Areas We Cover in Winsford & Beyond
Our home visiting team is based out of our Winsford Eyecare practice on Delamere Street (CW7) and covers the surrounding area extensively, including:
- Winsford town centre, Wharton and Over
- Northwich, Hartford and Davenham
- Middlewich and Moulton
- Sandiway, Cuddington and Weaverham
- Crewe, Nantwich and the wider Mid-Cheshire area
- Rural CW postcode villages
Not listed your street? Just ask when you call — if you’re within reach of our Winsford practice, the chances are we already visit nearby.
NHS-Funded Home Eye Tests: Are You Eligible?
The NHS funds a domiciliary (home) eye test for anyone who is eligible for an NHS sight test but cannot get to a high-street optician unaccompanied because of a physical or mental illness or disability. In practice, this covers a wide range of situations across Mid-Cheshire, including if you:
- Are housebound, bedbound, or live with significantly reduced mobility
- Live with dementia, or find unfamiliar environments distressing or disorientating
- Have had a stroke, fall, or recent hospital discharge that’s made leaving home unsafe
- Are aged 60 or over and unable to attend a high-street appointment without help
- Live in a care home, sheltered housing or supported living in Winsford, Northwich, Middlewich or Davenham
Being a carer for someone housebound doesn’t, on its own, make you eligible for a home visit — but if it’s genuinely difficult for you to leave home unaccompanied for a different reason, it’s worth asking about. We’ll always check your specific circumstances by phone before booking, and explain clearly whether your visit will be NHS-funded or privately arranged.
How Your Home Eye Test in Winsford Works
- Get in touch — yourself, or on behalf of a relative or someone you care for.
- We check NHS eligibility over the phone, usually in a couple of minutes.
- An optometrist visits your home in Winsford or the surrounding area with the same portable diagnostic equipment used in practice.
- Full eye health examination and eyewear styling in one appointment — no second visit needed for dispensing.
- We make, return, fit and deliver your glasses once they’re ready.
- We stay reachable afterwards for adjustments, questions, or anything that needs following up.
What’s Included in Your Winsford Home Eye Examination
Most appointments run 45–60 minutes. That’s enough time to do this properly rather than rushing through it:
- A full examination of your vision and the overall health of your eyes
- Screening for cataracts, glaucoma, macular degeneration and diabetic eye changes
- A written prescription, explained clearly in plain English
- A genuine styling consultation from our curated frame collection — not a stock box of two NHS-only styles
- Honest advice on premium and designer lens options, with no pressure either way
Areas we cover
We bring home eye care across Greater Manchester, Cheshire and West Yorkshire. See your local page for details of the areas we visit near you:
- Home eye tests in Manchester → /home-eye-tests-manchester/
- Home eye tests in South Manchester → /home-eye-tests-south-manchester/
- Home eye tests in Cheadle & Stockport → /home-eye-tests-cheadle/
- Home eye tests in Wakefield → /home-eye-tests-wakefield/
- Home eye tests in Winsford & mid-Cheshire → /home-eye-tests-winsford/
If three or more of these describe you, drops alone won’t solve this. The glands need to be cleared. That’s exactly what we specialise in.
Why Abra & Co
We’re an independent group that treats a home visit with exactly the same standard as a practice appointment — proper time, a real eye-health check, expert styling and beautiful eyewear, delivered with warmth and dignity. The people who most need careful eye care are often those who can least easily get to us, and we think they deserve the best of what we do, not the least.
The full experience — not a basic visit.
Most home eye tests give you a prescription and a box of plain frames. Ours is different. We bring a thorough eye-health examination, expert styling advice and a curated selection of beautiful frames — premium lenses, designer eyewear, varifocals — exactly what you’d get in our practice, delivered to your living room.
The optometrist who visits you is the same clinician you’d see in practice. The equipment is portable but professional. The time we give you is unhurried.
If you’re arranging a visit for a relative, they get the same standard of care — and the same genuine choice of eyewear — as any patient who walks through our door
The BlephEx treatment that forms the first stage of every EyeClean session was originally developed as a blepharitis treatment. The manual gland expression that follows addresses the MGD. In most patients, both are needed. In most patients, both are present.
If you’re not sure which condition is causing your symptoms, that’s exactly what your assessment is for.
Now you can see why nothing else worked
Once you understand the three stages, the pattern becomes obvious:
What you tried | Which stage it covers | What it misses |
| Eye Drops | ❌ None | Replaces tears only. Doesn’t touch the glands at all. |
| Warm Flannel | ⚠️ Partial Stage 2 | Can’t reach 180°C consistently. Without Stage 3, oil re-hardens. |
| BlephEx only | 🔍 Stage 1 only | Cleans the surface but doesn’t heat or express the glands. |
| IPL or LipiFlow | ✅ Stages 1 & 2 | No thorough manual expression; glands aren’t fully cleared. |
| New Glasses | ❌ None | Blurry vision is a tear film problem, not a prescription issue. |
| Our EyeClean Programme | ⭐ All Three Stages | Nothing. This is the complete clinical pathway. |
If three or more of these describe you, drops alone won’t solve this. The glands need to be cleared. That’s exactly what we specialise in.
The EyeClean Programme
The complete three-stage treatment — delivered over three visits
Now that you understand why the full three stages matter, here’s exactly what happens when you sit in our chair.
Visit 1 · The Deep Clean · Week 0–1
All three stages in one session
Stage 1 — Clean: We use the BlephEx device to exfoliate your eyelid margins, removing bacterial biofilm, debris, and crusting. Professional-grade cleaning that no home routine can replicate.
Stage 2 — Heat: Medical-grade warming at a precise 40–42°C softens the hardened oil inside your blocked glands. Consistent, controlled heat that a flannel simply cannot achieve.
Stage 3 — Express: Your optometrist uses precision forceps to carefully compress each gland and physically extract the stagnant, thickened oil. You’ll see the cloudy material being cleared. This is the step that changes everything — and it’s the step that requires genuine clinical skill and years of experience to do well.
Most patients feel a noticeable difference before they leave.
Visit 2 · Follow-Up · Week 2–4
Building on your progress
We reassess your symptoms, re-image your glands, and perform a second round of heat therapy and expression. This visit is usually quicker — your glands are already partially cleared. We refine your home care based on how you’ve responded.
Visit 3 · Consolidation · Week 6–8
Locking in the results
A final treatment session to ensure all glands are functioning well, followed by your long-term maintenance plan. Most patients then return every 6–12 months for a brief top-up to keep their glands clear.
Why Choose Abra & Co for a Home Visit in Winsford
Our Winsford practice at 27 Delamere Street has served the area since joining the Abra & Co family, and our home visiting service is run by the same GOC-registered, DBS-checked optometrists who see patients in that practice every day — not a separate, lower-tier team.
A few things worth knowing before you book:
- Qualified and accountable. Every visiting optometrist is GOC-registered and DBS-checked, and follows the same clinical standards used across all our practices.
- Equipped like a practice, not a bag of basics. Our Winsford team brings the same specialist diagnostic equipment into the home as we use in the consulting room, so eye health checks aren’t a watered-down version of the real thing.
- Experienced with the situations that matter most. We regularly visit care homes and supported living settings across Mid-Cheshire, and adapt our approach for patients living with dementia, sensory sensitivities, or limited mobility.
- Family-owned, locally rooted. Abra & Co has been examining eyes across Cheshire and the North West since 2017 — this isn’t a call-centre service dispatching whoever’s nearest.
Your investment
What's included — and what it costs
Specialist Dry Eye Assessment — £95
A dedicated 45–60 minute consultation focused entirely on understanding your dry eye. This is not a standard eye test with dry eye mentioned in passing — it’s a thorough, specialist assessment.
- Standardised symptom scoring
- Lifestyle, screen use, and environmental assessment
- Advanced imaging of your oil glands
- Tear film quality mapping
- Manual gland function testing
- Severity grading — mild, moderate, or severe
- Personalised written treatment plan, in plain English
- Home care recommendations
- All your questions answered — unhurried
You leave with a complete understanding of why your eyes are dry — and exactly what to do about it.
The EyeClean Programme — £450
If treatment is recommended following your assessment:
Three treatment sessions over six to eight weeks
BlephEx deep-clean at every visit
Medical-grade heat therapy at every visit
Manual gland expression at every visit
Progress imaging and symptom tracking
Home care kit — heat mask, lid wipes, drops
Ongoing support between visits
When you proceed with treatment
We credit £50 from your assessment towards your programme
Your assessment effectively costs £45 — less than a month’s supply of premium eye drops.
For comparison: automated treatments like IPL or LipiFlow elsewhere cost £800–£1,500.
Our programme: £450. Comparable results. Greater precision. A fraction of the price.
Your specialists
Co-Founder & Dry Eye Specialist
Sohail has been at the forefront of dry eye treatment since 2017, when he recognised that patients were suffering unnecessarily because the standard advice simply wasn’t working. He’s since trained extensively across Europe and has personally treated over 500 dry eye patients.
Co-Founder & Clinical Director
Arbra designed the diagnostic protocols and training systems behind the EyeClean Programme. She personally trains and mentors every optometrist who delivers dry eye treatment, ensuring the same exacting standard at every practice.
Plus seven trained optometrists across all five locations — every one personally mentored by Arbra, with regular case reviews and clinical audits.
Five clinics across Greater Manchester & West Yorkshire
- Abra & Co — Cheadle
19 Wilmslow Road, SK8 1DW · 0161 428 3717
HD Firefly imaging · Serving Stockport, Wilmslow, Bramhall
- Abra & Co - Middleton
36 Long Street, M24 6UQ · 0161 653 0771
Ocufy diagnostic imaging · Serving North Manchester, Rochdale, Oldham
- Ashworth Opticians - Heald Green
214 Finney Lane, SK8 3QA · 0161 437 3400
Serving Heald Green, Wythenshawe, Gatley
- Winsford Eyecare - Winsford
27 Delamere Street, CW7 2LX · 01606 599030
Serving Winsford, Northwich, Middlewich, Mid-Cheshire
- Armitage Opticians - Heckmondwike
14 Market Street, WF16 0JU · 01924 403617
Serving Dewsbury, Batley, Cleckheaton, Spen Valley
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
If you’re eligible for an NHS sight test but can’t get to a high-street optician unaccompanied due to illness or disability, your home eye test is NHS-funded. We’ll confirm your eligibility by phone before booking, with no obligation.
Call our Winsford practice or use our online booking link. We’ll check eligibility, then arrange a convenient time — usually within a few days.
Yes. We bring our full curated frame collection and all premium lens options to the appointment, exactly as you’d find in our Winsford practice.
Yes — we arrange visits for care home and sheltered-housing residents. Managers and families are welcome to get in touch.
Just call us — for yourself or on behalf of a relative — and we’ll handle eligibility and a convenient time.
Arrange a home eye test
Cheadle: 0161 428 3717 · Middleton: 0161 653 0771 ·
Heald Green: 0161 437 3400 Winsford: 01606 599030
· Heckmondwike: 01924 403617
GOC Registered · College of Optometrists · Association of Optometrists
· BlephEx Certified Abra & Co — Independent, Family-Owned Eye Care Since 2017