Over 8,000 registrants are still to complete CET

More than 8,000 General Optical Council (GOC) registrants have not met their CET requirements.

As the deadline for the cycle is December 31, currently only 60% of registrants have met all the requirements with just two months left. Registrants are advised to accept any pending points for them to count towards the 2016-18 cycle.

Marcus Dye, GOC’s head of standards and CET, said: ‘We strongly encourage registrants to plan the rest of their year accordingly in order to meet all their requirements by 31 December and avoid being removed from the register. We also want to instil in registrants the importance of logging into their CET record and accepting their points, as although they may have undertaken all the required learning, it will not count until all points have been accepted.’