During two open and lively sessions, practitioners posed questions about patient records, NHS changes and fitness to practise investigations to FODO's legal experts.
In the first session Judith Chrystie and Tom Rider, partners of law firm Field Fisher Waterhouse, explained how the introduction of duty of candour as part of the Health and Social Care Act may affect practitioners.
This was followed by a discussion on liability and defence of eye care professionals on the second day of Optrafair, when representatives from law firm Berrymans Lace Mawer took questions from the floor.
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