Simon Jones: Start as you mean to go online

There seem to be a few contradictory movements going on within UK optometry at present, so the start of a new year seems like a good place to take stock and try to make some sense of whether people should be cheerful or downbeat.

The ebb and flow of the optometry apprenticeship degree seems to be back in an ebb phase after the trailblazer group met late last year to discuss the proposals, which had been resubmitted to the Institute for Apprenticeship Training and Education weeks earlier. Crucially, the submission was made without additional consultation with stakeholders like the Association of Optometrists and the College (News 11.11.21), who were both somewhat irked.