AOP asks for judicial review

The Association of Optometrists (AOP) is taking Devon PCT to a judicial review in a bid to overthrow a new requirement from the PCT that domiciliary providers have an electronic visual field tester.

In an email to AOP members last month, David Craig, director of operations at the AOP, encouraged practitioners to respond to a short online survey to help ensure that such unreasonable requirements were not spread further across the country. Craig, who explained the timetable was uncertain, added: 'We have had great support. We are wary of saying too much at this stage, because we don't want to appear to be prejudicing the judicial process but we have now served papers and the process has started'.