Simon Jones: Long distance relationship

I’d like you to consider Formula 1 for a moment. When engineers, aerodynamicists and designers receive a set of technical regulations, they spend as much time looking for gaps in what they are permitted to do as they spend designing compliant cars. That’s the name of the game in F1 – pushing and exploiting each regulation to its very limit and, if it can be gotten away with, beyond.

So, should we be surprised if a company in optometric retail takes a similar approach and looks for flex in legislation that can be capitalised on? Brillen UK’s new remote refraction business model (https://www.opticianonline.net/features/in-focus-o...) – and I think it’s important to describe it as a business model because it isn’t a patient care-led model – has benefitted from loopholes within the Opticians Act.