Reform for year ahead tabled at GOC meeting

Discussions at the General Optical Council last week indicated that reforms to two of its major functions would be rubber stamped this year.

Proposed changes to the fitness to practise process and the way in which CET points are acquired weighed heavily on the agenda during the Council's 198th public meeting, at the home of the Royal College of Ophthalmologists at Cornwall Terrace, London.

The Council voted for a limited three-month consultation on an amendment to proposed new FTP rules first consulted on last spring, which are designed to speed up the FTP process. The amendment would see case examiners - rather than the GOC's registrar Samantha Peters - review decisions not to refer registrants for a hearing (News 27.01.12).