Welcome to Yeovil! Located in the heart of Somerset, our practice (along with Practice Partners and Optometrists Ben and Simon) became a part of the Robert Frith family back in May 2005, and since then have worked hard to build a reputation for providing high quality eye care in a relaxed and friendly environment.
Our wonderful and very thorough Optometrists Amanda, Roisin and Oliver will be on hand to provide the very best examinations, and along with Practice Manager Jacinda are supported by an amazing team of Dispensing Opticians, all of whom are familiar faces within the practice.
We are confident we are the only practice you need to visit to accommodate all the eye and hearing care you and your family require. Come in and see us soon.
At Robert Frith’s Yeovil, we have a wide range of expert eye care services. As well as routine eye tests, we can assist with Visual Therapy stress tests, managing your myopia, and glasses prescriptions. View our full list of services here:
Ben has been a partner at the Yeovil and Chard practices since 2005. He started his eye training in 1993 at Sheffield University, initially practicing as an Orthoptist in NHS Ophthalmology departments.
He returned to study at City University London in 1998, becoming a qualified optometrist in 2001. Ben has a broad range of skills particularly focused on the clinical aspects of optometry and he performs all the local NHS eye-care services. He has used participation in these schemes to grow these very popular practices; recognised locally as the place to go for matters of eye-health. He believes in a friendly, unrushed service where eye conditions can be fully explained. Ben is one of very few optometrists with an independent prescribing qualification. This is of particular use in emergency eyecare, and he does a weekly eye-casualty clinic at Yeovil District Hospital.
Away from work, Ben enjoys 5-a-side football, his guitar, DIY and is a coach for his son's football team.
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Simon first qualified as an orthoptist (eye movement specialist) and then retrained as an optometrist before becoming a partner with Robert Frith Optometrists in 2005. With Ben Williams, he is the resident optometrist and director of our practices in Yeovil and Chard, as well as being the children’s optometrist at Yeovil District Hospital. More recently, he gained a higher qualification in independent prescribing, meaning he is able to treat a wide range of eye diseases without the involvement of a doctor.
His areas of interest are children’s vision disorders, management of double vision and squints, and emergency eye care. He delivers lectures and workshops to opticians and GPs around the UK and is co-vice chair of Somerset Local Optical Committee.
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Jacinda has worked in optics for just over 17 years. In July 2005 she joined Robert Frith Optometrists in Shaftesbury. After a couple of years, the opportunity came to work with Ben Williams and Simon Frackiewicz at their Yeovil practice. This is where she decided to make optics her career and study to become a qualified dispensing optician. She graduated from ABDO college in 2013 and soon after became assistant manager. In 2015 she then became practice manager.
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Roisin grew up in Inverness in the Highlands of Scotland. She then graduated from Glasgow Caledonian University with a degree in Optometry in 2017 and completed her pre registration year with Black and Lizars in Glasgow before qualifying in 2018. She continued to work for Black and Lizars in Edinburgh before relocating to Somerset in late 2019 where she joined the practices with Robert Frith in both Yeovil and Chard.
Roisin has keen interest in emergency eye care and myopia control. She looks forward to enhancing her knowledge at Cardiff University later this year where she will be studying Ocular Therapeutics to gain a qualification in independent prescribing.
In her spare time Roisin enjoys walking, learning to play the violin and attending Netball classes.
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