Professionals to have greater say on reform

Registrants will have greater say in future policy changes at the General Optical Council (GOC), according to the optical regulator, which last Thursday published a consultation framework outlining its commitment to achieve greater stakeholder involvement.

The publication of the framework comes at a time when the GOC is seeking views on areas such as whether practitioners should be legally required to report concerns about their own or a colleague's fitness to practise, as part of the Council's consultation into the changes to the codes of conduct for individual and business registrants.

The consultation document, which is designed to be a best practice guide for staff, sets out the principles on which the Council will involve registrants.