ABDO: A new year and a new CET cycle

It is a new year and a new CET cycle. ABDO totally supports the future progression of CET to CPD: moreover, we are delighted that the GOC has listened to the profession’s concerns and decided to abandon the proposed one-year transitional period and revert to a final three-year CET cycle. This will hopefully allow the education review to be completed and new learning outcomes be determined. This will then establish the division between CET and CPD.

Let us hope the GOC has the wisdom to maintain the high education standards dispensing opticians and optometrists are qualified to, but also the foresight to enable both professions to advance and complement each other. Standing still is not an option, neither is the protection of our current rigid scope of practice and the restriction imposed by a 60-year-old Opticians Act.