ABDO offers members forum to air concerns

Members of the Association of British Dispensing Opticians (ABDO) will have an opportunity to voice their concerns in person over the direction in which the Association is moving during an Open Forum to be held next month.

The move follows concerns raised by some members that the Association has not done enough to defend their interests on issues such as the General Optical Council's one-fee approach, which sees dispensing opticians subject to the same registration fees as optometrists. In recent weeks several ABDO members have written to Optician expressing their frustration (Letters, January 23 and 30), at what they believe is ABDO's inaction over key issues.