- A current referral
- Your medicare card and private health insurance details
- List of medications
- Medical history (list of medical conditions and previous operations)
- Your glasses
- Any Xrays or scans that you think are relevant to your eye condition
- Sunglasses and hat to help with glare on the way home
Post operative eyedrops are not provided by the practice or the hospital. They can be purchased with your usual subsidies (where applicable) from your local chemist.
For more information about our fees please see our fees page.
The surgical fee includes postoperative care for each procedure. It does not include care for other conditions treated in the post-operative period. The post-operative period varies for each condition, but is generally 3 weeks for cataract surgery and 3 days for intravitreal therapy or laster therapy.
For more information about our fees please see our fees page.
No patient of the LVF Eye Centre has suffered a posterior capsular tear, loss of lens fragments or endophthalmitis (these are the important intraoperative complications of cataract surgery) in the 10 years to Jan 2024, a period encompassing many thousands of procedures. The 10 annual rolling audits for this period included every patient treated and records of the audits were submitted to the RANZCO (the college of ophthalmologists).
For comparison, the accepted average rate for these complications in the hands of a skilled, experienced surgeon is 2%. We believe it is partly for this reason that the LVF Eye Centre is often asked by general practitioners and optometrists to provide surgical services for their family members.
*Please note that surgical complications can and do occur in the best of hands, and that while past performance does tend to predict future performance to some extent, these figures are by no means a guarantee that future complication rates will be similar.