From the High Street: Benefits of a second opinion

This last month has been incredibly busy, both in and away from practice. We had the huge annual PAC conference in Birmingham, which thousands of practitioners attended, catching up with colleagues, who they may not have seen for many years. I’m sure many anecdotes were shared during face to face conversations and a lot of learning will have been gained from the conversations outside the lectures as well as from the lecturers themselves.

As a member of our LOC, I am also fortunate to see viewpoints from a range of practice settings and was lucky to be able to attend the NOC this year, which was a great night and day of meeting up with colleagues (some whom I hadn’t seen for a long time) and listening to speakers in the workshops and presentations. The time I spent there was invaluable to see the whole of optometry coming together and working with one purpose, to advance the profession both in the public eye and for the profession as a whole.