
2025 No. 1119 (W. 185)
National Health Service, Wales
The National Health Service (Optical Charges and Payments) (Amendment) (No. 2) (Wales) Regulations 2025
Made 21 October 2025
Laid before Senedd Cymru 23 October 2025
Coming into force 11 November 2025
The Welsh Ministers make these Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 129 and 203(9) and (10) of the National Health Service (Wales) Act 2006.
Title, coming into force and interpretation
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(1) The title of these Regulations is the National Health Service (Optical Charges and Payments) (Amendment) (No. 2) (Wales) Regulations 2025.
(2) These Regulations come into force on 11 November 2025 but they have effect from 1 April 2025.
(3) In these Regulations, “the Optical Regulations” means the National Health Service (Optical Charges and Payments) Regulations 1997.
Amendments to the Optical Regulations
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(1) Schedules 1 to 3 to the Optical Regulations are amended as follows.
(2) For Schedule 1 (voucher number codes and face values – supply and replacement) substitute the Schedule set out in Schedule 1 to these Regulations.
(3) In Schedule 2 (prisms, tints, photochromic lenses, small and special glasses and complex appliances)—
(a) in paragraph 1(1)(a), for “£12.20” substitute “£12.68”;
(b) in paragraph 1(1)(b), for “£14.24” substitute “£14.80”;
(c) in paragraph 1(1)(c), for “£2.03” substitute “£2.11”;
(d) in paragraph 1(1)(d), for “£2.54” substitute “£2.64”;
(e) in paragraph 1(1)(e), for “£65.29” substitute “£67.90”;
(f) in paragraph 1(1)(g)(i), for “£65.29” substitute “£67.90”;
(g) in paragraph 1(1)(g)(ii), for “£57.97” substitute “£ 60.27”;
(h) in paragraph 1(1)(g)(iii), for “£31.32” substitute “£32.57”;
(i) in paragraph 1(1A), for “£15.26” substitute “£15.86”;
(j) in paragraph 2(a), for “£14.85” substitute “£15.44”;
(k) in paragraph 2(b), for “£38.04” substitute “£39.56”.
(4) For Schedule 3 (voucher values – repair) substitute the Schedule set out in Schedule 2 to these Regulations.
Transitional and saving provisions
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(1) The amendments made by regulation 2 apply only in relation to a voucher issued pursuant to regulation 9, 10 or 11 or completed pursuant to regulation 16 of the Optical Regulations on or after 1 April 2025.
(2) Where a voucher—
(a) has been issued pursuant to regulation 9, 10 or 11 or completed pursuant to regulation 16 of the Optical Regulations on or after 21 October 2024, but
(b) has not been used or accepted pursuant to regulation 12 or 17 of the Optical Regulations prior to 1 April 2025,
that voucher has the face value provided for in the Optical Regulations as they existed immediately before 1 April 2025 and the voucher’s redemption value is to be calculated accordingly.
Jeremy Miles
Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care, one of the Welsh Ministers
21 October 2025
SCHEDULE 1
Schedule 1 to the Optical Regulations as substituted by these Regulations
Regulation 2(2)
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SCHEDULE 1
Voucher Number Codes and Face Values – Supply and Replacement
Regulations 1(2), 9(2)(a), 10(2)(a) and 16(2)(b) and (3)(b)


(1) Type of optical appliance (2) Number code (3) Face value of voucher
1. Glasses with single vision lenses of a spherical power of not more than 6 dioptres with a cylindrical power of not more than 2 dioptres. 1 £23.26
2. Glasses with single vision lenses—(a) of a spherical power of more than 6 dioptres but less than 10 dioptres with a cylindricalpower of not more than6 dioptres;(b) of a spherical power of less than 10 dioptres with a cylindrical power of more than 2 dioptres but not more than 6 dioptres. 2 £44.42
3. Glasses with single vision lenses of a spherical power of 10 or more dioptres but not more than 14 dioptres with a cylindrical power of not more than 6 dioptres. 3 £157.64
4. Glasses with single vision lenses—(a) of a spherical power of more than 14 dioptres with any cylindrical power;(b) of a cylindrical power of more than 6 dioptres with any spherical power. 4 £280.69
5. Glasses with single vision lenses—(a) of a spherical power of more than 20 dioptres with any cylindrical power;(b) of a cylindrical power of more than 10 dioptres with any spherical power. 5 £383.41
6. Glasses with multifocal lenses of a spherical power of not more than 6 dioptres with a cylindrical power of not more than 2 dioptres. 6 £42.30
7. Glasses with multifocal lenses—(a) of a spherical power of more than 6 dioptres but less than 10 dioptres with a cylindrical power of not more than 6 dioptres;(b) of a spherical power less than 10 dioptres but with a cylindrical power of more than 2 dioptres but not more than 6 dioptres. 7 £81.44
8. Glasses with multifocal lenses of a spherical power of 10 or more dioptres but not more than 14 dioptres with a cylindrical power of not more than 6 dioptres. 8 £304.08
9. Glasses with prism-controlled multifocal lenses of any power or with multifocal lenses—(a) of a spherical power of more than 14 dioptres with any cylindrical power;(b) with a cylindrical power of more than 6 dioptres with any spherical power. 9 £393.58
10. Glasses with multifocal lenses—(a) of a spherical power of more than 20 dioptres with any cylindrical power;(b) with a cylindrical power of more than 10 dioptres with any spherical power. 10 £539.01
11. Glasses not falling within any of paragraphs 1 to 10 for which a prescription is given in consequence of a sight test by a Local Health Board otherwise than under an arrangement under Part 6 of the 2006 Act. 11 £539.01
12. Contact lenses for which a prescription is given in consequence of a sight test by a Local Health Board otherwise than under an arrangement under Part 6 of the 2006 Act. 12 £57.97”
SCHEDULE 2
Schedule 3 to the Optical Regulations as substituted by these Regulations
Regulation 2(4)
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SCHEDULE 3
Voucher Values – Repair
Regulation 19(2) and (3)


(1)Nature of Repair (2)Number Codes - Values
 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11
 £ £ £ £ £ £ £ £ £ £ £
Repair or replacement of one lens 6.34 16.92 73.73 135.26 186.62 15.87 35.43 146.96 191.70 264.42 264.42
Repair or replacement of two lenses 12.68 33.84 147.47 270.52 373.24 31.74 70.86 293.91 383.41 528.84 528.84
Repair or replacement of: the front of a frame 8.99 8.99 8.99 8.99 8.99 8.99 8.99 8.99 8.99 8.99 8.99
a side of a frame 5.29 5.29 5.29 5.29 5.29 5.29 5.29 5.29 5.29 5.29 5.29
the whole frame 10.58 10.58 10.58 10.58 10.58 10.58 10.58 10.58 10.58 10.58 10.58”