Eligibility for a home eye test

You can have an NHS funded home eye test if you qualify for an NHS funded eye test and you are unable to get to an Opticians without assistance. Check below to see if you are eligible for an NHS funded eye test

You're entitled to a free NHS sight test if you:

• Are under 16
• Are 16, 17 or 18 and in full-time education
• Are 60 or over
• Are registered as partially sighted or blind
• Have been diagnosed with diabetes or glaucoma
• Are 40 or over and your mother, father, sibling or child has been diagnosed with glaucoma
• Have been advised by an eye doctor (ophthalmologist) that you're at risk of glaucoma
• Are a prisoner on leave from prison
• Are eligible for an NHS complex lens voucher – your optician can advise you about your entitlement

You're also entitled if you or your partner – including civil partner – receive, or you're under the age of 20 and the dependant of someone receiving:

• Income Support
• Income-related Employment and Support Allowance
• Income-based Jobseeker's Allowance
• Pension Credit Guarantee Credit
• Universal Credit and meet the following criteria:  

If you're entitled to or named on:

• A valid NHS tax credit exemption certificate (if you do not have a certificate, you can show your award notice), you qualify if you get Child Tax Credits, Working Tax Credits with a disability element (or both), and have income for tax credit purposes of £15,276 or less
• A valid NHS certificate for full help with health costs (HC2)

People named on an NHS certificate for partial help with health costs (HC3) may also get help with the cost of a private sight test.

If you're eligible for a free NHS sight test, you may also be entitled to a mobile sight test. This is when an optometrist comes to visit you:

• At home – if you're unable to leave home unaccompanied because of physical or mental illness or disability
• At a residential or care home – if you're a resident and unable to leave the home unaccompanied because of physical or mental illness or disability