Optical sector needs to step up lobbying efforts

The optical sector must step up its lobbying efforts if eye health is to be pushed higher up the government's agenda, industry insiders were told at a meeting of the All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Eye Health and Visual Impairment.

At last Wednesday's London meeting, to discuss the implementation of the UK Vision Strategy, the APPG's chair Sandra Gidley, MP, said: 'Eye health is not on the radar of MPs. Unless people start lobbying MPs they won't take notice. There is so much else going on for ministers that you have to make some noise to catch their attention.'