GOC reveals CL CET plans

The General Optical Council has described new arrangements for continuing education and training in contact lenses as 'a compromise situation' which places less burden on some practitioners but makes CET more valuable.

Last month the GOC agreed proposals for the next three-year CET cycle that will provide a basis for a revalidation for optometrists and dispensing opticians from January 2013 (News Focus, 01.10.10).

Currently, contact lens opticians (CLOs) have to gain a minimum of 18 contact lens CET points per cycle but from 2013 these will be included in the general requirement of 36 points rather than additional to it. CLOs will need a minimum of three CL CET points per year and must undertake one peer review activity in contact lenses per cycle.