In focus: Towards best practice

As part of their retention declarations for 2016-17, all business registrants to the General Optical Council (GOC) had to confirm that they had read and would abide by a Code of Conduct, which was revised in 2016. The new Standards for Optical Businesses represent the latest update to best practice recommendations for business registrants.

The standards have been revised with reference to extensive analysis of the feedback received during a consultation with patients and the profession, which ran earlier in the year. It received 351 unique responses and was supplemented by a series of focus groups and meetings with patients, professional bodies and employers, allowing the GOC to reflect the changing industry in the new standards.