Comment: Questions on a postcard...

Sometime soon, perhaps as early as this autumn, the General Optical Council is expected to survey its registrants.

Presumably the purpose of the exercise will be to find out what optometrists and dispensing opticians think of the work their regulatory body carries out and what they would like the GOC to be doing more or less of - so it's your chance to make your feelings felt. The relationship between the GOC and the professions has been dominated of late by the introduction of compulsory continuing education and training. This has not been without a little drama but, if the figures published by the GOC and the drop in the number of calls to the Optician office are anything to go by, the first three-year cycle has been a success.