Laser treatment costs

How do our prices compare with other clinics?

We offer the UK’s best price for laser eye surgery, starting at £295 per eye.

PLEASE NOTE that this includes a London teaching hospital NHS consultant specialist surgeon and the UK’s most accurate and safest eye laser.

Absolutely no corners have been cut in your treatment at FOCUS Laser Vision! This is the highest quality of care you can get anywhere in the UK.

See this graph for three typical short sighted prescriptions (-1DS; -2.75/-1.50x90; -5.50DS) at various London laser eye centres - FOCUS Laser Vision, Optical Express, Optimax, Ultralase and Moorfields.



These prices are for the most advanced form of laser eye surgery available in London – blade free (dual laser) wavefront LASIK. The price differences can mean a saving of thousands of pounds for your treatment.

Please note that in this example only FOCUS Laser Vision and Moorfields Eye Hospital routinely provide a London teaching hospital NHS consultant ophthalmic surgeon to perform your treatment. (Our primary surgeon is actually also fellowship trained at Moorfields Eye Hospital).

You can see the total cost savings for yourself – WITHOUT compromising on quality of care.

For more information on LASIK prices, click here to visit Dr. Dave Allamby's laser eye surgery blog.

We have three levels of pricing, which depend on what kind of glasses or contact lenses you wear. The simpler your glasses and vision problem, the lower the price.

The lowest price is for treating short sight (myopia) and prices start from only £295 for wavefront LASIK. Short sight is usually quite stable and one treatment should clear the vision for good, so quite easy to correct.

Long sight (hyperopia) is a bit more difficult to treat and is a progressive problem, so prices start from £995 for wavefront LASIK.

We also offer the very latest technology using our Z LASIK treatment. This is Blade Free wavefront Z-LASIK and prices start from only £595 per eye (myopia).

If you need glasses for reading, usually over the age of 40, then we need to provide you with clear reading plus keeping great distance vision. This needs an expert custom optics treatment for which FOCUS Laser Vision is a true specialist clinic and so is more expensive than treating either short or long sight. All reading treatments are £1695 (keratome LASIK, wavefront and custom optics) and generally do not depend on your prescription.

The refractive error that you have, e.g. short sight or long sight, and also the strength of your glasses is measured in diopters (usually marked by the letter D, or occasionally DS). This number tells you what kind of lens is needed for your glasses or contact lenses, and it is also used to determine your laser eye treatment. The more short sighted or long sighted you are, the worse you eye sight and the higher your prescription will be in diopters (D).

The prescription for glasses that you get from your optician or from your laser eye consultation may be written in 3 numbers. Let’s look at an example of a prescription:

e.g. -4.00/ -1.50 X 90.

You might see three boxes for each eye on your prescription, labelled as SPH, CYL and AXIS. There can sometimes be a fourth number labelled ADD.

We only use the first two numbers to work out what you treatment will cost, because these two indicate the size and complexity of your vision problem, and hence how much laser treatment is needed to fix it.

In our example above, the first number (e.g. -4.00) identifies the amount of short sightedness or long sightedness. The sign is an indication of whether you are short sighted (with a minus ‘-’ in front) or long sighted (with a plus ‘+’ in front).

The second number (e.g. -1.50) shows how much astigmatism you have. This simply tells us how irregular your prescription is. The higher the number, the more distortion you have in your vision. This can be written as either + or -. We always use the - (minus or negative) format.

The third number (90) tells us more about the shape of the astigmatism. In this case, was say the astigmatism is at 90 degrees.

We use your prescription to work out the appropriate laser vision treatment to correct your vision problem. In other words, these numbers say how much and where the laser needs to be used to reshape the cornea to an ideal curve.