GOC to meet DoH to shape trial lens policy

Attending the meeting will be Jerry Read (Department of Health dental and optical services branch), Dr Jennifer Chaston (Medical Devices Agency) and GOC registrar Richard Wilshin. This will be followed by a special meeting of the GOC's standards committee, chaired by Professor Roger Buckley, consultant ophthalmologist at Moorfields Eye Hospital, 10 days later on July 29. 'We will certainly be talking to the Department of Health after they issue the hazard notice this week,' said Dian Taylor, deputy registrar of the GOC. When asked what action practitioners who did not comply with the DoH decision on trial contact lenses could face, Ms Taylor said: 'The standards committee will be asked what advice it will give to the GOC following on from the hazard notice.' However, progress over the summer months may be slow. SEAC (Spongiform Encephalopathy Advisory Committee), the Government's advisory committee on the subject of CJD, will not meet again until September. The next meeting of the GOC is scheduled for November 18.