A letter from the Association of British Dispensing Opticians in this week's Optician (16.03.12) has further clarified the organisation's ambitions for refraction.
ABDO president Jennifer Brower stressed that the FBDO R qualification trained dispensing opticians to the same level of refraction expertise as that of optometrists. She also emphasised that the proposed register for refracting opticians would be based on stand-alone skills rather than as a delegated function.
Meanwhile, a straw poll on Optician Online found that 70 optometrists disagreed with calls for ABDO members to win the right to refract (News 24.02.12), while five agreed.
From a sample of dispensing opticians, 32 agreed with the notion while 18 did not.
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