Dr Allan Simpson says he will never buy another plastic bottle of shampoo ever again. The sentiment came after he and his wife Dr Beth Simpson recently spent a weekend on the West Coast helping pick up rubbish at... Read more >
If you were a recent patient to SES in April 2019, you may have noticed some new faces around the office. We have been supporting the Canterbury DHB during a recent crisis where the Eye Department was displaced for a... Read more >
Hard on the heels of our recent upgrade of our OCT-A capability, Southern Eye Specialists has also purchased the new ELLEX YAG LASER - a non-invasive laser utilised to treat patients with posterior capsular opacity (secondary cataract), YAG laser capsulotomy... Read more >
The OCT-A capability is a non-invasive imaging technique that assists in the diagnosis of various forms of retinal disease, recently purchased and installed at Southern Eye Specialists. This capability speeds up diagnosis and treatment planning for our patients. Chair of... Read more >
Southern Eye Specialists announce the purchase of a Plusoptix A12C Mobile Autorefractor to compliment delivery of paediatric eye care for our patients, primarily to infants, young children, and for adults who may encounter difficulty with our standard autorefractor equipment. Autorefractors... Read more >
In June 2019 we welcomed Dr Antony Bedggood, MB ChB (Otago)FRANZCO, to the SES team. Dr Bedggood is an experienced cataract surgeon and general adult ophthalmologist. He regularly works managing neuro-ophthalmic disease and also has extensive experience in the surgical... Read more >
Interested in hearing and learning more about Glaucoma? Dr Allan Simpson, (MB ChB FRANZCO), Director at SES, and our Glaucoma expert is the key note speaker at the Glaucoma NZ seminar being held at the Commodore Hotel on Memorial Ave,... Read more >
SES introduces newest Director, Dr Logan Robinson, MB CHB, PGDip Ophth, BS (Distinction), FRANZCO. Many of our patients and referrers will already know of Logan as one of our consulting ophthalmologist's. Logan actually joined us in 2016 having completed his... Read more >
More and more New Zealanders are opting to buy their glasses online to save money. The trend is to visit an optometrist or optician, get an eye test including an important measurement called pupillary distance (PD) and enter those measurements... Read more >