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Fran qualified as as an Orthoptist in 1974 at the Birmingham & Midland Eye Hospital. She worked as a Senior Orthoptist at Northwick Park Hospital, Harrow, for twenty years and then transferred to Central Middlesex Hospital where she is still working today.

She runs a clinic on the first Thursday in every month at BUPA Hospital Harpenden as well as a busy private practice in Stanmore where she sees patients on Monday, Wednesday and Thursday evenings and Thursday and Saturday mornings. Her patients like the service of evening and weekend appointments. Her referrals come from several consultants working in and out of the Hospital. She sees adults and children who require treatment for squint, amblyopia (lazy eye), muscle palsies and convergence weakness and is recognised by all the major insurance companies such as BUPA and PPP.

Fran also sees a lot of patients with learning difficulties such as dyslexia and dyspraxia. She is referred patients by Educational Psychologists and Optometrists who want her to check childrens' tracking and ocular motility. Exercises are then given if found necessary. She has had some very successful results with children being able to read for longer and with greater ease.

At her practice in Stanmore she has a full set of Fresnel stick on prisms which enables her to relieve a patient with diplopia (double vision) immediately.

Fran's main hobby outside Orthoptics is playing tennis. She is captain of Pinner Four tennis team. She is slso very involved with fund raising for Chai Cancer Care, a charity which raises money for people with cancer.