General Chat

Apologies to everyone who is waiting for me to contact them, but I am unavailable until Tuesday.

I am in court on Monday and must give myself time to prepare for this.



To all of you who have asked if you can come along, I thank you for your support but this conference is not open to the public.

You will all be welcome to attend the trial later this year

That's awful, it goes to show how desperate they really are to silence the truth and the people telling it.

Its a shame I can't make these demos, i'd have liked to see one of their scumbags try that on me!

Hope you get better soon and take the appropriate action against the person and company, and if possible get even more press coverage for the campaign.

:lol: My experience at the Cabot Circus demo on Tuesday turned out to be more eventful than I expected. After we went in with balloons and flyers to inform the patients we were asked to leave. Attempting to do so, with balloons in one hand and a large holdall in the other, I was assaulted on my way down the staircase, and unable to defend myself. The attack came from nowhere and a rage overtook the man who jumped me.

I won't post details now as the police will be investigating.

The OE staff then tried to evict me from the stairwell where I was lying In excruciating pain, but the shopping center security refused to allow this and stayed with me until the paramedics arrived. OE staff wouldn't allow any of my fellow campaigners in the shop to stay with me, even though one person offered to remove her OERML T shirt if they let her in.

The people involved weren't low grade staff who could be instantly sacked for assaulting a peaceful protestor, they were the suited and booted types, yet to be named by the police in my action that is going forward as I write this.

The laser eye surgery companies have no conscience and are desperate to silence those who are daring to to speak up against them, and a senior OE director seems to have helped it along with his unprovoked assault on me.





My bruises will heal but my sight won't, and like so many others I can't turn time back or repair the lasting damage Optimax caused when they disabled me.

Yesterday’s events at the Cabot Circus demo were quite shocking, but unfortunately I’m unable to tell all as yet, for reasons which will be made clear in due course.

For now I can tell you that one of our team was assaulted and injured while inside the Optical Express store by a small Scottish man wearing an expensive suit. Police and ambulance attended.



'm almost certain I know who the man was, and the police definitely do. However, as two of our team were wearing GoPro cameras, when they send me the footage I’ll be able to identify the wee man for sure

Dozens of opticians (probably 90% wearing specs) arrived to watch the live ‘performances’ of lens exchange surgery like it was a spectator sport, with trays of delicacies delivered by caterers half an hour earlier to nibble on.

I imagined gluttonous Romans feasting as they watched slaves torn apart by lions.

I also wondered where OE had kept the demonstration models while they were waiting for the audience to arrive, picturing them chained up in the basement like the young victims in the Tarantino Hostel movie!

I thought of the Japanese girl in the movie who escaped, but then threw herself under the train when she saw her eyeball hanging out!

It is no exaggeration to say that I felt physically sick thinking about what must be an all time low in advertising, even by OE’s standards.

Btw, I could swear I saw General Operations Director Hugh Kerr scuttling up the stairs after I’d been 'asked to leave' the premises

I had planned dinner out with friends, but then an optician in Bristol contacted me with information that Optical Express had invited them to watch LIVE lens exchange surgery being performed at the (aptly named) Cabot Circus store this evening!

So I postponed dinner and organised a party in Bristol instead!

It was great fun - especially as BBC TV showed up and filmed it!

I've only just arrived home so will post details when I can

admin wrote: “Our vision for the future is to completely eradicate the need to put up with poor vision – and it is something that I truly believe is achievable.”
www.telegraph.co.uk/sponsored/health/opt...optical-express.html

David Moulsdale, how can you have the audacity to say this?

You have ruined my eyes and your staff repeatedly refused to meet with me, despite my writing to you and calling at your Harley Street clinic many times.

You push people through the system like dodgy double glazing salesmen, whether it's in their interests to have RLE or not, so long as you pocket another few thousand pounds.

And then you paint yourself as a pioneer out to save our vision - that you’re definitely not!

"Optical Express chief executive officer David Moulsdale trained as a dispensing optician in the Eighties, the same decade in which the Thatcher government began deregulating the ophthalmic profession. Those changes transformed the industry, opening the door for new companies and loosening restrictions on marketing and advertising. They also provided the perfect setting for Moulsdale to launch his own business.

In 1991 he founded Optical Express. He opened up a number of optical stores in quick succession and then acquired several optical businesses and integrated those. He went on to purchase the Specdeals optical business in early 2002 but chose not to purchase its laser eye clinic. However, the acquisition did spark his interest in the laser eye surgery industry; even though his initial reaction was that it could potentially become a serious threat to his mainstream optical, spectacle and contact lens business.

Later in 2002 another opportunity arose for Optical Express to purchase a laser eye surgery business, The Health Clinic PLC, and this time Moulsdale went for it. At first he was guided by the surgeons and the manufacturers of the devices, but he soon realised that he needed to have his own data and IT infrastructure, and he needed to focus on implementing the latest technologies.

These days, an Optical Express surgeon can typically perform between 16 and 20 procedures per day. According to Moulsdale, NHS surgeons generally perform between three and six eye surgeries per day, due to the service’s financial and resource constraints.

“I believe the solution would be more public and private partnerships,” says Moulsdale. “We can work together in a collaborative and supportive way to improve efficiency and productivity. It is possible.”

One of the notable innovations that benefits Optical Express is iScan, its diagnostic screening technology. According to Moulsdale, the implementation of iScan has improved clinical care, productivity and efficiency. Moulsdale says he hopes to bring iScan into every ophthalmic department throughout the UK in a six to 12-month roll-out programme, potentially saving the NHS hundreds of millions of pounds each year.

In recent years Optical Express formed a partnership with private health insurer Bupa and discovered that Bupa provided cover for thousands of cataract procedures for its members. However, they did not have access to the clinical outcomes. Moulsdale offered to provide them with the information on clinical outcomes data that they were seeking.

Bupa was the first private insurer to go live with Optical Express for direct bookings with consultant surgeons. Moulsdale sees it as a blueprint for future partnerships because it outlines how private health insurers that embrace Optical Express technology, systems and infrastructure can benefit.

“Solutions for correcting poor vision started outside the eye with spectacles,” says Moulsdale, “then came contact lenses. Laser eye surgery which treats the prescription on the surface of the eye followed and we are now working on research into the back of the eye.

“Our vision for the future is to completely eradicate the need to put up with poor vision – and it is something that I truly believe is achievable.”"
www.telegraph.co.uk/sponsored/health/opt...optical-express.html

Stephanie is out of hospital after being diagnosed with a serious eye infection around her tear duct, which is badly swollen and very painful.

She’s feeling quite low and angry right now.

To anyone who envied Stephanie’s compensation payment, please be assured that she - like the rest of us, would give back every penny (and more!) to have her pre surgery healthy eyes back

Stephanie Holloway was awarded £569,000 last September after successfully suing both Optical Express and Dr Joanna McGraw.
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2771023...ied-prove-lying.html

She was admitted to hospital yesterday because of extreme pain and inflammation in her left eye.

Stephanie avoids publicity and doesn't like to cause a fuss - although she has promised to come to demos when I start them up again!

I spoke to her an hour ago when she optimistically told me, because she could afford a private hospital, the food is great!

The consultant has prescribed anaesthetic drops to numb the pain, so Stephanie will hopefully sleep through the night.

Her eyes will be examined tomorrow when I will of course update you

On a lighter note recently I managed to run into an open window hitting my head on the frame and ending up with 6 stitches in my head and a black eye.

At the doctors I was asked was my vision blurred? Yes, I replied, but it always is - I went to Optical Express!
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