Visus writes: Interesting times Down Under

There seems to be a pride in the assumption that the UK suffers less from organised antipathy between the professions of optometry and ophthalmology found elsewhere, the US and Australia in particular. For example we have no restriction on ophthalmologists lecturing to optometry meetings as in the US and we rarely find ourselves competing on the same primary care ground as Australian optometry.

The big question could be; are we in fact echoes of the famous John Cleese, Ronnie Barker and Ronnie Corbett television sketch on social class – ‘I know my place’ and maybe this has held UK optometry back? Surely not all consensus is always positive for both parties and out of conflicting opinion can come advancement in the public interest?