Bitterness, ugly rumour and insults are being bandied about and for once the topic isn’t Europe.
The topic testing the minds of employers and suppliers in optics is the use of locums.
The chatter around locum use has been rumbling on for some time now. Employers are having to pay more and more and supply is harder and harder to come by. Contact lens companies are seeing contact lens penetration fall and, behind closed doors, this has also been linked to the use of locums who just want to refract.
Back in March, Optician surveyed its readers on the topic in the Market Monitor survey. Of those practices quizzed 56.8% said they used locum optometrists or dispensing opticians. For 36.6% of practices this was an increase year on year.
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