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Newcastle Optician Wins National Award
Published: Friday 1st January 2010

Newcastle Optician Wins National Award

6th May 2006

A North-East optical practice has taken a top award at a national ceremony, recognising the best practices within Optometry and retail optics.

Querido and Davidson Optometrists of Heaton, Newcastle upon Tyne triumphed over 25 other practices nationwide to reach the final shortlist.

Ten awards were presented at the lavish awards hosted by Optician Magazine. Querido and Davidson impressed the judging panel with their," clinical ability, business acumen and innovation," to take the award for, "contact lenses Practice of the Year, 2006,"sponsored by Johnson and Johnson Visioncare.

John Davidson, 35, Optometrist and director of the practice is delighted to have received the award and believes it reflects the practice’s strong belief in providing customers with, "state of the art products balanced with an individual, high quality service where customers receive the very best in today’s innovative eye care."

The practice was established in 1956 and eventually purchased by John and his wife, practice manager and director Julia Davidson, 32, in 2002. The couples dedication to their practice has seen the business grow from strength to strength, now specialising in customers who suffer eye diseases or require alternatives to laser care procedures.

John’s professional dedication leads him to play a role as a part-time senior Optometrist at Sunderland Eye Infirmary, mainly performing specialist contact lenses fitting and low vision work. He sees the award as," punctuating a new period in the growth of our business and a validation of the immense hard work since the business was launched over 3 years ago."

The practice, which now employs several full-time staff, are dedicated to the future, which includes maintaining exemplary levels of service for their customers in all aspects of eye care - with a view to producing products for all types of vision problems.

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Newcastle Opticians

Is your current eyecare provider giving you the service that you expect? ...or is he or she just too rushed or disinterested? Then move on & join us at Querido & Davidson.

We are a national award winning eyecare practice (established in 1956) with a long heritage of providing exemplary service and exceptional products.

Eye Tests & Examinations

Our Optometrists carry out a huge array of checks during to your eye examination. These can include testing your eye pressure (to detect glaucoma - which, if undetected, could lead to blindness), checking sideways field of vision and the health of the back of your eye.

All these checks are quick and painless, and will provide us with important information that will help monitor any slight changes over time.

Contact Lenses

We fit a huge variety of contact lenses types to patients across the whole of the UK. We supply lenses to people of all ages, & all prescription types. Using corneal topography and slit lamp image capture we provide the highest standard of care to all our contact lenses wearing patients.

We specialise in iGo OVC, Ortho-K and Paragon CRT Orthokeratology work for all ages from 6 upwards. We are an accredited Chromagen contact lens practice. We supply varifocal contact lenses and contact lenses to correct astigmatism. We can also supply theatrical contact lenses for television productions.

In 2006 we were awarded the title of Contact lens practice of the year at the UK Optician awards.

Keratoconus Eye Care

We are a keratoconus friendly practice, and are experienced in the following keratoconus management methods:

Spectacles
Soft contact lenses, including Ultravision Kerasoft and Acuity Soft K
Gas permeable contact lenses, including Rose K, So2Clear and Lensdynamics Dyna Z intralimbal
Scleral contact lenses, including Innovative Sclerals

Finding Querido & Davidison:

We are located at:
196 Chillingham Road
Heaton
Newcastle upon Tyne
NE6 5LN
0191 265 9898