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Important Ophthalmology Patient Information

IMPORTANT – PLEASE READ

When you attend this clinic, please bring the following with you:

  • An up to date and accurate record of all the medication that you are currently taking including medications not prescribed by your doctor.
  • All spectacles that you wear.
  • For Cornea and Cataract Patients - Please make sure you discontinue contact-lens wear prior to your hospital appointments
  • 1 week for soft lenses
  • 2 weeks for hard gas permeable lenses

You may be required to have a number of tests at this appointment. Therefore, please be prepared to spend a few hours at the clinic.

You may have eye drops instilled at the appointment, which will blur your vision for 4-6 hours. It is therefore advised to travel with a friend / relative and DO NOT DRIVE YOURSELF.

Please ensure you read any leaflets enclosed with this appointment letter as they contain important information about your appointment.

PLEASE CAREFULLY CHECK THE VENUE OF YOUR CLINIC

There are 6 different clinic locations

Singleton Hospital - Sketty Lane, Sketty SA2 8QA

  1. Main Outpatient entrance for Corridor 3,6,7 and 8 – The new one-way directions are available in the printable version below.

CORRIDOR 3 VISUAL FIELD APPOINTMENT Please contact 01792 205666 and ask for Extension 25222 on arrival BEFORE entering the hospital.

  1. West Ward block entrance – left side of main hospital, level 3
  2. Day Surgery unit – opposite side of the road to Main Hospital on Sketty lane
  3. Health & Wellbeing Academy, Swansea University, Singleton Park Campus, Swansea, SA2 8PP.

There is limited parking for the Wellbeing Academy as well as disabled parking directly outside.

Please ring 01792 531247 when you arrive and we will let you in.

  1. Neath Port Talbot Hospital - Baglan Way, Port Talbot, SA12 7BX

Follow Outpatient signs to level 1 Eye clinic

  1. Primary Care Hub (rear of Dyfed Road Surgery) - Dyfed Road, Neath SA11 3AW . Junction 43 off M4

Parking is available. There are also hourly and 2 hourly parking on the road opposite and a Multi-story at the end of the road. There is no reception, so please take a seat in the waiting area as you enter the building.

Follow this link for a printable version of this information, along with a map of Singleton Main Outpatients One Way Directions.

Rydym yn croesawu gohebiaeth a galwadau ffôn yn y Gymraeg neu'r Saesneg. Atebir gohebiaeth Gymraeg yn y Gymraeg, ac ni fydd hyn yn arwain at oedi. Mae’r dudalen hon ar gael yn Gymraeg drwy bwyso’r botwm ar y dde ar frig y dudalen.

We welcome correspondence and telephone calls in Welsh or English. Welsh language correspondence will be replied to in Welsh, and this will not lead to a delay. This page is available in Welsh by clicking ‘Cymraeg’ at the top right of this page.