Notice of the AOP annual general meeting

To all members of the Association of Optometrists (AOP). This year the AGM of the AOP will be at the AOP’s office: 2 Woodbridge Street, London EC1R 0DG on Wednesday 5 June, commencing at 9am.

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Emily McCormick

16 April 2024

Agenda for the Association of Optometrists’ Annual General Meeting 2024

Introduction by the chairman
To receive and approve the minutes of the last Annual General Meeting held on 7 June 2023
Roll of deceased members
To receive the chairman’s report
To receive the chairman of Finance Committee’s report
To approve the Annual Financial Report and Accounts for the year ended 31 December 2023
To consider and, if thought correct, approve the proposal of the Board that BDO LLP be re-appointed as the Association’s auditors
Any other business.

By Order of the Directors. Adam Sampson, chief executive, 2 Woodbridge Street, London EC1R ODG

Please note that a full set of the 2023 accounts will be available at on the AOP website in advance of the AGM
A member entitled to attend and vote at the meeting convened by the notice set out above is entitled to appoint a proxy to exercise all or any of his or her rights to attend and speak and vote in his or her place. A proxy need not be a member of the Association
A form of proxy is available on the AOP website. To be effective, the instrument for appointing a proxy must be deposited with the Association’s chief executive at the Association’s office ([email protected]) no later than 3.45pm on Friday 31 May 2024. Completion of the proxy does not preclude a member from subsequently attending and voting at the meeting in person if he or she so wishes.

The AOP’s Annual Report will be available on the AOP website.

Education for AOP members in 2024

As we enter the last year of the current three-year CPD cycle, the AOP highlights what education it will provide members through events and OT this year

The AOP’s 2024 education and events calendar has been developed to ensure that it supports members to meet their continuing professional development (CPD) requirements, providing coverage of all practitioner types and domains, as well as peer review and discussion workshops. A combination of in-person and remote learning will be available across the year, allowing members to consume education in a format that best suits them and their lifestyle.

Remote learning

This year the AOP, in partnership with OT, will host more themed education days than ever before. Themes have been selected in response to feedback given through the AOP’s 2023 member survey. This year, five themed webinar days will cover: paediatrics (21 April), myopia (12 May), locuming (23 June), dry eye (14 July), and OCT (6 October). To complement these days, the AOP will host 10 online peer reviews through the year, as well as discussion workshops, run both independently and in collaboration with supporting partners including Johnson & Johnson MedTech, Alcon and CooperVision.

Face-to-face

A range of in-person events will be run across the UK this year, featuring one-off peer reviews and discussion workshops, as well as the return of popular locum clinical skills and career break conferences. In addition, the Hospital and Specialty Optometrists Conference will be hosted across two days in Manchester this year (21–22 September).

Professional development one-day CPD-accredited workshops will focus on: mastering workplace communication, managing teams, and developing and using confident behaviour.

Optometry Today (OT)

Continuing to support members and subscribers through a suite of online education, OT will provide access to 24 articles and 12 clinical interpretation exams, each worth one non-interactive CPD point and available through the OT website. It will also provide six CPD videos, each worth two interactive CPD points. Launched to support members and subscribers through the final stages of the CPD cycle, OT will release a special CPD survival pack. Featuring six articles and one video, the pack will cover the domains required by all practitioner types.

Non-CPD

The AOP acknowledges that non-CPD professional advancement is also important and will provide a series of online wellbeing webinars open for members and their wider practice teams. Extending its support for the whole practice team, OT will build on its online Practice team training, delivered in partnership with Johnson & Johnson MedTech.

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