Clinical and regulatory

The fee remains unchanged for a fifth consecutive year

Optometrists must use their professional judgement to decide whether a sight test or contact lens fit is necessary in order to supply spectacles or contact lenses

The multinational technology company removed several listings of adjustable focus spectacles following contact by the General Optical Council

Regulator highlights optometrists may need to use CE-marked lissamine green within their practice in line with a patient’s best interests

A joint regulatory statement signed by the GOC states that professionals may have concerns about how to care for patients in challenging circumstances

AOP’s head of clinical and regulatory, Henry Leonard, tells OT  why NHS England’s professional conduct process needs to be transformed – or removed altogether

The latest meeting of the General Optical Council heard how progress is being made on reducing the optical regulator’s fitness to practise backlog

Lidl has stopped stocking multifocal reading glasses in UK stores after the supermarket chain was contacted by the General Optical Council

A Manchester-based student is no longer able to train as a dispensing optician after the General Optical Council erased her from its register

Barry Church did not appeal the fitness to practise committee’s decision