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Janine Gray is a qualified orthoptist with over 30 years of experience and would be delighted to assist you today.

Janine is a Senior Orthoptist, who has been practising for the last 35 years, having qualified in 1989 from the Welsh School of Orthoptics in Cardiff. She started her career at Moorfields Eye Hospital where she worked for 16 years, being instrumental in setting up the first outreach clinic at Northwick Park Hospital. She also worked in Harley Street for 5 years before starting her family in 1997.

For the last 22 years, Janine has had orthoptic clinics at the Clementine Churchill Hospital in Harrow and also at Spire Harpenden. She also has joint clinics with consultant ophthalmologists which allows patients to have a full orthoptic and ocular examination, diagnosis and treatment plan all on the same day.

In January 2021, Janine returned to the NHS in Barnet for a maternity cover as acting Head orthoptist and has continued to work there as Deputy Head orthoptist from January 2023. She is the Lead clinical tutor in her NHS post supervising undergraduate orthoptic students on their clinical placements teaching them their practical skills.

Janine also runs a vision screening service in private schools in Hertfordshire, Middlesex and North London detecting visual problems and squints in children aged between 4-7 years old.

Janine specialises in assessment and treatment of adult and childhood squints, reduced vision (amblyopia) in 1 or both eyes needing treatment with patching and/or glasses, convergence insufficiency needing treatment with exercises and assessment of double vision resulting from injury or neurological causes with treatment by prisms. She also specialises in seeing children with neurological conditions or developmental delay. Janine regularly performs visual field assessments for glaucoma and the DVLA.

Janine enjoys working with patients of all ages and is committed to providing the highest standard of care with patient satisfaction being of utmost importance to her. She works closely with ophthalmologists, optometrists, neurologists, paediatricians, ENT specialists and endocrinologists with patients being referred from a wide area including London, Hertfordshire, Essex, Buckinghamshire, Middlesex, Berkshire, Cambridgeshire, Wiltshire and even Yorkshire.