GOC takes new position on verification of contact lens specifications

Optical practices that do not verify a copy of a contact lens specification, providing it met certain requirements, will no longer be prosecuted by the General Optical Council. A new position statement outlined that the regulator would not pursue sellers if the specification was in date, did not contain errors or was not obviously tampered with.

Steve Brooker, director of regulatory strategy at the GOC, said: ‘We hope the new statement clarifies our position in relation to what we consider to be an outdated requirement for copies of contact lens specifications, and lessens the inconvenience that original prescribers sometimes face when they have to verify copy specifications, creating delays that are passed on to patients as costs.’