The Association of Optometrists is holding its very first Optometry Student Conference at Butlins, Skegness on November 1st & 2nd 2008.
This event offers students important career advice and guidance on their pre-registration year, as well as providing the opportunity to network with fellow Undergraduates from across the country. An exhibition will give you access to employers, industry and equipment suppliers (with the opportunity to win prizes too). Lectures are being carefully designed to give delegates a chance to improve their clinical skills, hone their interview techniques, explore career options and much more.
A firework display will kick-off the social programme for the Saturday evening followed by the first AOP Student Eye Ball.
Who should attend? All undergraduate students studying optometry are invited to this event.
For more information, please click here.
Practitioners in England who are concerned because they don't yet have a contract in place with their PCT should read the guidance issued by the AOP, together with ABDO, FOD and the BMA.
Also in conjunction with FODO, ABDO and the British Medical Association (BMA) we have released other documents aimed at guiding members through the transition to the new GOS Contract in England as well as draft letters to the PCT and the answers to some frequently asked questions. Click here to read them.
The contract replaces the current General Ophthalmic Services Terms of Service and is effective from 1 August 2008. Our guidance looks at the requirements of the contract, a timetable for implementation and advice for practitioners and businesses on the transition between the two.
There is also a special edition of Blink, the AOP newsletter, which contains advice and comment from those involved in negotiations over the contract.
The AOP is urging LOCs to write to LMCs, complaining about the requirement in the new GOS contract for practitioners to send the results of each sight test carried out on a patient with glaucoma or diabetes to the patient's GP.
Click here to read more..........
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