Domiciliary: Considering settings

Recruiting newly-qualified optometrists to work in domiciliary settings has long been a major problem for OutsideClinic but a plan to improve awareness among students aims to change that.

Simon Raw, optometrist at OutsideClinic, is having conversations with universities to deliver a lecture and live-streamed domiciliary eye examinations for future practitioners.

‘When OutsideClinic offered me a job 14 years ago and said, do you want to do domiciliary? I said, “No, why on earth would I want to do that? I know nothing about it.” At university, no one ever mentioned domiciliary in three years. It wasn’t part of the curriculum. There was no lecture on it,’ he says.