Eye test

[martyn94]

I haven't read this in depth but it appears to say they changed their minds

http://www.snof.org/2015-le-sénat-suppr ... e-lunettes

The Senate often says things that are reversed down below, and I think that this may be one of those cases.

It's interesting that the Code de la Santé, as it seems to now stand

https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/affichCo ... ieLien=cid

does seem to require a "medical prescription", but then allows opticians to "adjust" a prescription in course of validity (including, I imagine, redoing it and getting it right). That may help explain why opticians have seemed to have more scope to act by themselves than the basic framework seems to allow. For myself, I'll continue to take a 2-day break in the U.K.

[martyn94]

Just to recap, for those who don't want to follow the to-and-fro between me and Allan, it seems that you need to have a prescription from an ophthalmo given within the last three years to buy corrective glasses. But if you have the piece of paper, your optician (i.e. the glasses shop) doesn't generally have to follow it exactly: they can test you again themselves and give you what they think you need.

Bizarre, but it could be worse.

[Phip2]

Wow; I'm glad that I didn't know this . Realising that my perscription was over 4 years old, ditto my glasses, and having heard of other 'oldies' driving with old prescription glasses I popped along to Générale d'Optique had my eyes tested , got a new prescription and new glasses . However, I've just had a look at the little glossy brochure with which I was issued : 'nos opticiens diplômés effectuent gratuitement la vérification de votre vue'. .....La vérification de la vue n'est pas un acte médicale . I now know that I didn't have an eye test , just a test to verify my vision was as stated on my prescription and given that it wasn't I got glasses to my 'new prescription' + a copy on a nice plastic card.

I love the twisted logic of this French workarounds .

[catllar]

Wow; I'm glad that I didn't know this . Realising that my perscription was over 4 years old, ditto my glasses, and having heard of other 'oldies' driving with old prescription glasses I popped along to Générale d'Optique had my eyes tested , got a new prescription and new glasses . However, I've just had a look at the little glossy brochure with which I was issued : 'nos opticiens diplômés effectuent gratuitement la vérification de votre vue'. .....La vérification de la vue n'est pas un acte médicale . I now know that I didn't have an eye test , just a test to verify my vision was as stated on my prescription and given that it wasn't I got glasses to my 'new prescription' + a copy on a nice plastic card.

I love the twisted logic of this French workarounds .

More than one way to skin a cat!

[martyn94]

Wow; I'm glad that I didn't know this . Realising that my perscription was over 4 years old, ditto my glasses, and having heard of other 'oldies' driving with old prescription glasses I popped along to Générale d'Optique had my eyes tested , got a new prescription and new glasses . However, I've just had a look at the little glossy brochure with which I was issued : 'nos opticiens diplômés effectuent gratuitement la vérification de votre vue'. .....La vérification de la vue n'est pas un acte médicale . I now know that I didn't have an eye test , just a test to verify my vision was as stated on my prescription and given that it wasn't I got glasses to my 'new prescription' + a copy on a nice plastic card.

I love the twisted logic of this French workarounds .

In theory, it seems, the optician has to tell your original ophthalmo that they have "adapted" the ophthalmo's original prescription. And an ophthalmo is entitled to endorse their prescription, forbidding any mere optician from monkeying around with it.

As you say, it seems a very French way of preserving the ophthalmo"s monopoly while stopping the system seizing up completely.