Ferrier & MacKinnon Optometrists

24/01/2025

🚨 PRACTICE CLOSURE 🚨

Due to the red weather warning, our practices will be closed on Fri 24th January to ensure patient and colleague safety.

Please contact NHS 24 on 111 if you are having any sudden new symptoms.

We will be back open on Sat 25th January. Thank you for your understanding.

24/12/2024

Christmas & New Year Closure

We'd like to let all our valued patients know that we'll be closing at 4pm on Christmas Eve for the Christmas & New Year break.

If you experience any sudden new symptoms or visual problems during this time, please contact NHS 24 for advice & assistance.

For all other issues, we're back open on Friday 3rd January at 9am.

With all our very best wishes for the festive period, from all at Ferrier & MacKinnon.

14/03/2024

Did you know about some of the main risk factors for glaucoma? Along with many other optometrists across Fife (like PLM), we work closely with NHS Fife in the management of glaucoma in the community.

If you need any help or advice, talk to us or book your routine eye exam today 😊

09/02/2024

Wow! 🤩

Massive congratulations to Brenda Rennie FBDO, our Dispensing Optician Practice Manager, on her appointment as the next Vice-President of the Association of British Dispensing Opticians! 🙌

Couldn’t have happened to a lovelier person, and the DOs of ABDO (along with the next generation) are in great hands.

Brenda Rennie FBDO has been elected to be the next vice president of ABDO, and will succeed president-elect Kevin Gutsell in the role on 9 May. A dispensing optician employed in independent practice, Brenda is a current ABDO board member, ABDO regional lead for Scotland, an ABDO examiner and has fac...

07/02/2024

👓 F&M TRAINING DAY! 👁️🎓

📆 Closure Date: THU 8TH FEB 2024
🔍 Regular hours will resume on FRI 9TH FEB 2024.

Our commitment to providing top-notch eye care is unwavering, and we believe that continuous learning is so important when striving to deliver the best services.

Because of this, all of our dedicated teams will be joining together for one day of training to enhance their skills and knowledge.

While we're closed, you can leave a message on the phone, email us or leave a message via Facebook Messenger.

Should you have any urgent concerns, please contact NHS 24 on 111.

We appreciate your trust and can't wait to bring you an improved eye care experience! 👁️👓

03/01/2024

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

All our practices are back open today, from 9am to 5pm.

We’ll be delighted to help 😃 … just give us a few moments for the first coffee/tea to kick in! 😂🙌

25/12/2023

HAPPY CHRISTMAS

From all of us at Ferrier & MacKinnon, and to all our staff, friends, colleagues, families, extended families and patients.

Thank you for all your good cheer in 2023, and here’s to plenty more in ‘24!

We’re closed until Wed 3rd Jan 2024. If you experience new symptoms that require urgent triage, call NHS 24 on 111. If it’s not urgent, call us and leave a message and we can get it sorted when we’re back open.

Love and best wishes! ❤️🎄🪅🥂🥳

[pictured is bearded Santa Claus, in his fluffy uniform, with his head rested on the slit lamp for an examination by the optometrist]

22/12/2023

FAREWELL NANDO! 🥂 🦸‍♂️

It’s with a sense of pride and sadness we say “farewell!” and all the best to our Dispensing Optician Practice Manager in Lochee, Fernando.

A superhero of dispensing, we never fail to Marvel at his customer focus or his ability to ensure the highest of standards.

As you venture to galaxies far, far away (…Arbroath!) remember, you’re the hero Lochee deserves.

May the Force be with you, Fernando!

22/11/2023

🚨 CLOSED ** BURNTISLAND & COWDENBEATH 🚨

Our Burntisland & Cowdenbeath practices are closed today (Wed 22nd Nov) and tomorrow (Thu 23rd Nov) as we’re having a shiny new computer system installed 🖥

Both practices are back open on Friday 24th Nov from 9am... but give us a good fifteen minutes to get the coffee first 😂☕️

In the meantime, our Dunfermline & Inverkeithing practices are back open today for their first day on our new computer system. Please be gentle!

20/11/2023

** CLOSED ** DUNFERMLINE & INVERKEITHING **

Our Dunfermline & Inverkeithing practices are closed today (Mon 20th Nov) and tomorrow (Tues 21st Nov) as we’re having a shiny new computer system installed.

We’re back open on Wednesday 22nd Nov from 12pm.

In the meantime, our Burntisland & Cowdenbeath practices are open today and tomorrow.

13/11/2023

We can help with your new face squeezers 😂 👓

20/10/2023

No Power ⚡️

Our Kinross shop have had to close early today, Fri 20th Oct, because of a power cut. If you have an eye emergency, you can call our Dunfermline practice on 01383 721502.