Community eye care contracts

• The five suppliers that won the most community eye care contracts took 45% of them (29 of 65).
• The median contract, £344k, is 3.3 times the median across healthcare contracts (£106k).
• Yorkshire and The Humber had the most contracts: 20, or 31% of the total.

1. 1NHS South Yorkshire Integrated Care Board15 contracts£1.4m
2. 2NHS North East and North Cumbria Integrated Care Board6 contracts£396k
3. 3NHS West Yorkshire Integrated Care Board4 contracts£772k
4. 4NHS Thames Valley Integrated Care Board3 contracts£4.3m
5. 5NHS Lancashire and South Cumbria Integrated Care Board3 contracts£36k
6. 6NHS South West London Integrated Care Board2 contracts£10.0m
7. 7NHS North West London ICB2 contracts£7.1m
8. 8NHS Dorset Integrated Care Board2 contracts£4.2m
9. 9NHS Herefordshire and Worcestershire Integrated Care Board2 contracts£3.7m
10. 10NHS Bedfordshire, Luton and Milton Keynes Integrated Care Board2 contracts£1.0m

1. 1Primary Eyecare Services16 contracts£32.2m
2. 2Community Health and Eyecare (CHEC)4 contracts£4.2m
3. 3FCJ OPTICALS LTD3 contracts£7.5m
4. 4Specsavers3 contracts£14k
5. 5Apex eye and visioncare Ltd3 contracts—
6. 6SeeAbility2 contracts£27.2m
7. 7Samreen Uppal Limited2 contracts£1.3m
8. 8EYE-DOO OPTICAL LTD2 contracts—
9. 9EMMS Healthcare Limited1 contract£4.6m
10. 10THE CATARACT CENTRE LIMITED1 contract£4.4m

Latest

• Dental Checks and Sight Testing in Residential Special Educational Settings - NHS Norfolk and Suffolk ICB (official notice, opens in a new tab)

  £344k

  NHS Suffolk/Norfolk commissioning bodies to Norfolk Community Health and Care NHS Trust and Soul Optometrists Limited · Awarded 1 October 2026

• Sutton Vision (Community Low Vision Clinic Service) (official notice, opens in a new tab)

  £56k

  NHS South West London Integrated Care Board to Sutton Vision · Awarded 11 September 2026

• Community Ophthalmology Service (official notice, opens in a new tab)

  £795k

  NHS Thames Valley Integrated Care Board to The Eye Academy (Richmond) Ltd · Awarded 12 August 2026

• Community Ophthalmology (official notice, opens in a new tab)

  £211k

  NHS Thames Valley Integrated Care Board to SOPs Healthcare Ltd · Awarded 12 August 2026

• NHSE986 - Eye Testing in Special Education Settings in North East and Cumbria - CP (official notice, opens in a new tab)

  £134k

  NHS North East and North Cumbria Integrated Care Board to FCJ OPTICALS LTD · Awarded 31 July 2026

• NHSE987 Children and Young People in Special Education Settings Sight Testing Service - RFI (official notice, opens in a new tab)

  £2.2m

  NHS England to 2020VISION UK LTD and FCJ OPTICALS LTD · Awarded 16 July 2026

• Optometry Local Enhanced Services 2026/27 Rotherham - Asda Opticians (official notice, opens in a new tab)

  Value not published

  NHS South Yorkshire Integrated Care Board to Asda · Awarded 9 July 2026

• Optometry Local Enhanced Services 2026/27 Rotherham - O’Brien Fey Opticians (official notice, opens in a new tab)

  Value not published

  NHS South Yorkshire Integrated Care Board to O’Brien Fey Opticians · Awarded 3 July 2026

• Optometry Local Enhanced Services 2026/27 Rotherham - Wickersley Eye Clinic (official notice, opens in a new tab)

  Value not published

  NHS South Yorkshire Integrated Care Board to Wickersley Eye Clinic · Awarded 3 July 2026

• Optometry Local Enhanced Services 2026/27 Rotherham - Boots Opticians (official notice, opens in a new tab)

  Value not published

  NHS South Yorkshire Integrated Care Board to Boots · Awarded 3 July 2026

Largest

• Provision of Community Urgent Eyecare / Glaucoma Referral Refinement / Pre-Cataract Operation Assessment Services / Single Point of Access in Cheshire, Warrington, Halton, St Helens, Knowsley, Sefton & Liverpool areas. (official notice, opens in a new tab)

  £10.0m

  NHS Cheshire and Merseyside ICB to Primary Eyecare Services · Awarded 17 March 2026

• The Provision of Ophthalmology Services (official notice, opens in a new tab)

  £9.9m

  NHS South West London Integrated Care Board to Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and Primary Eyecare Services · Awarded 28 January 2026

• Nottingham & Nottinghamshire ICB Community Ophthalmology Market Engagement Event (official notice, opens in a new tab)

  £4.6m

  NHS Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Integrated Care Board to EMMS Healthcare Limited · Awarded 17 June 2026

• Community Ophthalmology - C405758 (official notice, opens in a new tab)

  £4.4m

  NHS North West London ICB to THE CATARACT CENTRE LIMITED · Awarded 2 March 2026

• ITT: Derby and Derbyshire Community Ophthalmology Triage and Treatment Service (official notice, opens in a new tab)

  £4.2m

  NHS Derby and Derbyshire Integrated Care Board to Primary Eyecare Services · Awarded 8 June 2026

Optometrist-led eye services commissioned in the community, such as urgent and minor eye conditions, cataract referral and follow-up, triage of ophthalmology referrals and specialist contact lens services.

• Minor and urgent eye conditions services
• Pre- and post-operative cataract assessments
• Community ophthalmology triage and treatment
• Specialist contact lens services
• Enhanced optical services
• Spectacles supply for eligible patients
• Ophthalmic referral coordination and management hubs offering patient choice

• Hospital cataract and ophthalmology services (hlt.acute.cataract-ophthalmology)
• Diabetic eye screening (hlt.diag.diabetic-eye-screening)
• Children's vision screening (hlt.diag.screening-programmes)
• Workplace eye tests and safety spectacles (rec.occh.eyecare-vouchers)
• Ophthalmic equipment (hlt.equip.ophthalmic-equipment)

• GP enhanced services
• Minor ailments scheme
• NHS dental services
• Orthodontic services

• End of life care
• Community elective services