Optical organisations

The programme will see its first students graduate this summer

The Professional Standard Authority has published its annual assessment of the optical regulator’s performance

The optical regulator has launched its 2022 Registrant Workforce and Perceptions survey

A collaboration across sector bodies, SPOKE, has completed its first project to produce indicative guidance supporting qualification providers in meeting the new standards

Following the 2021 registrant survey, the regulator took a closer look into levels of job satisfaction and the groups most likely to make a change in their career in the coming years

Optometrists Rukaiya Anwar and Harry Singh have become council associates at the optical regulator

Under the changes, trainees will no longer need to have been practising for two years before taking on the independent prescribing qualification

The GOC’s Natalie Michaux on the education changes that are coming on 1 January 2022

Current GOC director of education, Leonie Milliner, will take up the role in January 2022

The optical regulator has updated its guidance for registrants who need to ‘whistleblow’ when patient or public safety is potentially at risk