Running a successful optical practice : Part 10 - Operating as a business within the NHS

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Regardless of the nature of your practice, all practitioners can benefit from a healthy relationship with the National Health Service. This side of our business has developed rapidly over the past 20 years, from the days of limited frame ranges and free eye examinations for all, through the Thatcher government's deregulation of the industry, to new and upcoming services such as NHSnet and the very real threat of the Government's reform of General Ophthalmic Services (GOS).

Clearly, there is a need for all of us to understand the relationships, opportunities and threats that exist for a modern practice in operating within the NHS.