Useful information
Shropshire and Telford Hospital NHS Trust – Ophthalmology: for all enquiries regarding your NHS appointments.
Local organisations
Community Resource (formerly known as Shropshire RCC): support, advice and training for local communities
Enable: employment service providing support and advice for people with disabilities and to employers looking to recruit people with disabilities.
RNIB Eye Clinic Liaison Officers: usually located within the Ophthalmology Department at your local NHS Trust Hospital. They offer practical and emotional support to people living with sight loss and their families and carers.
Shropshire Choices: The Shropshire Choices team provides advice on a wide variety of health and social care support. Working with Shropshire Council, the Choices team are able to signpost and support residents to access services from the local authority, NHS partners and voluntary and community groups.
Shropshire Disability Network: helping to give disabled people and carers in Shropshire a voice; the place for disability information in Shropshire.
Sight Loss Shropshire: a range of services to improve the quality of life for visually impaired people living in Shropshire
Talking Newspapers: free weekly newspapers in various audio formats for people who cannot read printed papers
National organisations
Access to Work: Support in work if you have a disability
Age UK: provides services and vital support to people in later life, delivering a range of services across the UK, including: money and legal, health and wellbeing, care and support, work and learning, travel and hobbies
RNIB: providing information and advice on eye health, sight loss and wellbeing, equality rights and employment, money, benefits and finance, families and carers, reading, home and leisure
Blind Veterans UK: helping ex-service men and women to rebuild their loves after sight loss by supporting blind veterans, of every generation, to lead independent and fulfilling lives
Guide Dogs: support, with or without dogs, for people who are blind and partially sighted and for family members. Information and advice on life skills, family support, education support, technology, assistance dogs, dog care and welfare and sighted guiding,
Macular Society: information and support to help people living with macular conditions overcome their worries and retain their independence.
RNIB Talking Books: a free service with access to over 32,000 fiction and non-fiction book