Practitioners embrace peer review, says GOC

Early take-up of peer review has encouraged the General Optical Council after it made the sessions compulsory for optometrists.

The GOC said 15 per cent of those registrants who must undertake peer review continuing education and training in the 2013-15 cycle had already done so since the start of the year.

This represented 2,230 optometrists and contact lens opticians, who require at least one peer review point during the three-year cycle under changes rolled out in January.

All registrants must also now obtain at least 50 per cent of their points from interactive methods, according to the GOC, which said 92 per cent of points gained so far in the new CET cycle had been from interactive learning.