Visus writes: Developments across the Irish Sea

So it’s goodbye Bord na Radharcmhaistoiri (Opticians Board) and hello CORU (Health Social Care Professionals Council) which will now be Ag Rialáil Gairmithe Sláinte agus Cúraim Shóisialaigh (Regulating Health and Social Care Professionals). Keen readers of Optician will have been interested to read of developments across the Irish Sea where there has been a wholesale revolution in the potential scope of practice for optometrists alongside the move from a separate Board to a combined Council.

It may come as a surprise to those of us brought up thinking UK optometry has led Europe that Ireland actually registered optometrists in 1956. This was two years before the GOC came into being though even this was fully 41 years and two world wars after Tasmania became the first Commonwealth state to register the profession.