In Focus: Back to the future

Members of independent optical practitioners’ organisation SightCare returned to Telford’s International Centre for the first time since 2019 for a day of in-person networking and business lectures.

The Covid-19 pandemic led SightCare to forgo its annual conference last year in favour of a number of online webinars for its members, but with the easing of restrictions the organisation was keen to return to its usual venue and the benefits of in-person interaction.

A total of 125 delegates attended the 2021 conference on September 20, representing 70 practices. The conference seemed just as busy as in previous years, but several attendees told Optician they had decided to bring fewer staff with them either due to time pressures or because they did not want to risk too many staff being forced to isolate.