Major shake-up to CET points accreditation

Further details about the way eye care professionals achieve CET points and providers get their CET accredited in next year's cycle have been outlined.

The first major change will be the introduction of approved providers. Those providers who deliver a significant amount of CET, such as Optician, will be able to go through a process of registration as an approved provider to deliver accredited CET. This will be audited by spot checks of material or, for live events, random 'mystery shopper' visits.

Smaller providers delivering the occasional CET event will still need to submit their event to an accreditation process similar to the previous system under Vantage, now to be run under the tender won recently by Replay Learning (News 11.05.12). Self-approving providers will need to show evidence of their rigour in meeting what will be newly defined criteria for accredited CET.