Eyecare 3000 eyes London expansion

Expansive event Eyecare 3000 is to come to the capital for the first time at the end of the year.

The course and mini-exhibition format, which has already been run successfully in Glasgow and Belfast this year, will be held at London's Royal Society of Medicine in November.

Organisers have already set out their stall that London will be an annual fixture in the optical education calendar. In addition, another Eyecare 3000 event will be held in Cardiff from October 8-10 at the city's Marriott Hotel.

Speaking to optician, course organiser Dr Scott Mackie revealed the London expansion had received financial support from the capital's official visitor organisation, Visit London. He said: 'Eyecare 3000 has now become a major source of CET for many optometrists, and with the introduction of compulsory CET it is now time to run an eye care course in England.' 

The event will offer 14 lectures and 14 workshops in parallel sessions with a concurrent English exhibition. A CD-Rom recording from each lecture and workshop will be been given to each delegate at the end of the course.

Last month's Glasgow Eyecare 3000 used bar code scanning to ensure the 436 delegates were accurately recorded on entry to all lectures and workshops to help administrate compulsory CET with management provider Vantage. 

And at the Belfast event, the first of its kind, 198 delegates attended, a third of them from outside the province.

Eyecare 3000's first London event will run from November 12-14 2005.