Packing them in

^{Facilitators helped small groups of attendees}

After nine previous events across the length and breadth of the British Isles over the past five months, Specsavers’ series of Mini Professional Advancement Conference (MiniPac) 2024 conferences came to a conclusion at County Hall, London on Sunday, June 23. The conferences had the overarching theme of enabling attendees to achieve or maintain their positions as ‘trusted experts’ providing the best possible care and service to patients. 

‘We tailored the content of each conference to the specific location,’ said Neil Retallic, head of professional development at Specsavers. ‘In Scotland and Wales, a lot of attention has been paid to informing and supporting people to achieve independent prescriber (IP) status. In England, it is more a case of constructing the framework for the schemes that will ultimately need more IP optometrists.’