The road to revalidation

There was standing room only last week at the latest General Optical Council revalidation event in London and with good reason.

The feedback gathered at these five nationwide events will be used by the GOC revalidation working group to devise rules for the revalidation of all registrants from 2013 as mandated by the Government in its White Paper Trust, Assurance and Safety. These new rules could have profound affects on the way anyone registered with the GOC operates after 2013.

The purpose of the events is to involve the profession in helping the GOC devise a revalidation scheme. The feedback gathered will be formulated into proposals which will be fed back to the profession before being enshrined in law.