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Business Focus Top level specialist care at Eye 2 Eye


Eye2Eye is already one of the top local providers of enhanced optical services - providing specialist eye care in the community since 2012 - but now its expertise has been taken to a whole new level.


Therapeutic Specialist Optometrist Chirag has now been invited to join the team at Moorfield Hospital in London as a specialist in the Glaucoma, Urgent Care and External disease & Cornea clinics. Chirag said: “It’s always been a personal goal of mine to work and train with the very best in the world, and I feel really grateful for the opportunity that has come my way.” Chirag will still work at Eye 2 Eye, bringing the best care home to the practice’s patients, too. The practice, in the Mid Kent Shopping Centre in Allington, is the only one of its kind in Maidstone, with resident therapeutic optometrists.


Brothers Chirag and Manish Patel have grown up in the area and pride themselves on building a practice with a loyal following; They have a tremendous sense of community and a


commitment to provide the best service for their patients, without compromise. Their higher qualifications mean they are eye specialists - not just opticians - providing the only accredited Primary Care Acute Ophthalmology service for the Maidstone area. The brothers can, therefore, accept and treat a wide range of emergency or acute eye referrals; walk-ins; optician or GP referrals; as well as those from the NHS 111 service and A&E. Chirag and Manish are also part of a select group of optometrists able to issue prescriptions. This high quality offering extends to the practice’s state-of-the-art technology, including equipment such as the OCT eye scanner, and lenses used in their glasses from the world-renowned manufacturer Nikon. Come and experience the finest eye care in the safest hands.


Find us at:


Unit 8, Mid-Kent Shopping Centre Castle Road, Allington, Maidstone Kent ME16 0PU


E:eye2eye.allington@nhs.net


01622 672563 www.eye2eye.care


Protection against the “Armageddon scenario”


When preparing your Will, you should consider what you would like to happen to your estate on your death. In typical scenarios, you may wish to leave your estate to your children, grandchildren or other family members. However, what would happen to your estate if the “ultimate disaster” occurs, and you die at the same time as your beneficiaries? If the worst happened and you and your beneficiaries passed away together, the gift would fail and your estate would pass in accordance with the Intestacy Rules. This may mean that your estate would pass to your first surviving relatives, whom you may not wish to benefit from your wealth. If you do not have any surviving relatives, your estate would ultimately pass to the Crown, and many people are not aware that this would be the case and it would not be their wish to do so. In order to protect against this unlikely eventuality, you may wish to consider


including a common tragedy or ultimate default clause within your Will. This could provide for friends to benefit from your estate, or perhaps even your preferred charity. As well as providing certainty in your Will and knowing that your estate will pass to persons or organisations of your choosing, it may also provide some positive benefit. A well-publicised case on this scenario is the case of Mr Cousins. Mr Cousins died in 2017 in a plane crash, together with his two sons, his fiancé and her daughter. As they all passed away together, they could not benefit from the residue of his estate. However, Mr Cousins had a common tragedy clause in his Will, which took effect and Oxfam benefitted from the residue of his rather sizeable estate.


Whitehead Monckton appreciate that it


is difficult to contemplate what you wish to happen in the event of your death, and our Tax and Estate Planning department are here to assist you in providing peace of mind that your affairs will be dealt with in accordance with your wishes and feelings. If you would like more information on common tragedy clauses or the Intestacy Rules, please do not hesitate to contact a member of our team.


The Kent Law Firm For details of the full range of our services,


please refer to www.whitehead-monckton.co.uk 698000 01622 Maidstone May 2019 15


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