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I am the newest member of the Pagan and McQuade team.  I am really enjoying meeting our clients.  Every day is different and it is always a great feeling to improve our clients vision, comfort and appearance. I love to see my dispenses through from frame and lens selection, to ordering, fitting and right through […]

I have a real interest in the clinical side of our eyecare and I am responsible for using our Tearlab instrument for diagnosing and monitoring dry eye disease in our Dry Eye clinics. I am the practice expert on blepharitis and eyelid health.  I provide BlephEx eyelid hygiene therapy and advice on keeping blepharitis under […]

I am a spectacle enthusiast and I will admit that I like to wear different pairs of spectacles depending on what I need to do visually.  At work, I wear Workstyle lenses which allow me to work on my computer with a comfortable head position and to interact with my lovely clients sitting opposite me […]

I have been in place now for two years at Pagan & McQuade Opticians.  I now have responsibility for our suite of pre-screening instruments which form part of your initial assessment before entering the Optometrist’s consulting room.  Where age appropriate, I check eye pressures, visual fields, auto-refraction and hearing screening. As part of our Advanced […]

My desk is closest to the entrance to Pagan & McQuade so there is a good chance that you will meet me as soon as you come in.  I like meeting people and helping them. I am studying with Anglia Ruskin University to qualify as an Optical Assistant.  The company encourages the team to be […]

I wear contact lenses most of the time to correct a little myopia (short sightedness, blurred distance vision). I’m wearing Dailies Total 1, a revolutionary contact lens design using water gradient technology which makes them both healthier, and so comfortable you don’t know you’re wearing them. It’s good to give your eyes a break, though, […]

I wear hydrogel, high water content contact lenses to correct a little short-sightedness (blurred distance vision) and of course age-related presbyopia (hardening of the lens, making it hard to focus when reading). There’s a little astigmatism too (when the eyes are not spherical). These are all common issues to correct and when choosing contact lenses […]

Gary, Founder I’m wearing a Nine frame, which is a Japanese design, which I’ve had for about nine months. It’s very light (in fact it weighs 9 grams), but is very robust which it has to be as I’m afraid I’m not as gentle with my frame as I should be. The team chose this […]

I’m moderately long sighted (hypermetropic) and have been since I was 3 years old. I had to wear an eye patch at school as “lazy eye” runs in our family.  The technical name for this is amblyopia. To correct long-sightedness, lenses are thicker in the middle than at the frame edge. I wanted thinner, lighter […]

I love working at Pagan & McQuade Opticians.  We have a really great team and our clients make the job worthwhile.  I get such satisfaction from helping people find the perfect frame. I wear spectacles and occasionally wear contact lenses and I understand the importance of comfort as well as aesthetics. I qualified as a […]

I am a Dispensing Optician and I qualified many years ago when living down in Essex.  I am delighted to have relocated to Scarborough six years ago and I am now a real advocate for the area. I’m long-sighted so I need glasses to read, these are Myself varifocal lenses.  I also have astigmatism (which […]