Optical organisations
The latest news from leading optical organisations across the sector
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The programme will see its first students graduate this summer
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The Professional Standard Authority has published its annual assessment of the optical regulator’s performance
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The optical regulator has launched its 2022 Registrant Workforce and Perceptions survey
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A collaboration across sector bodies, SPOKE, has completed its first project to produce indicative guidance supporting qualification providers in meeting the new standards
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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
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Optometrists Rukaiya Anwar and Harry Singh have become council associates at the optical regulator
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Under the changes, trainees will no longer need to have been practising for two years before taking on the independent prescribing qualification
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The GOC’s Natalie Michaux on the education changes that are coming on 1 January 2022
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Current GOC director of education, Leonie Milliner, will take up the role in January 2022
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The optical regulator has updated its guidance for registrants who need to ‘whistleblow’ when patient or public safety is potentially at risk