NOC delegates review year of transformation

More than 200 Local Optical Committee (LOC) delegates met in Warwick last week for the annual National Optical Conference (NOC).

Alan Tinger, chair of the LOC Support Unit (Locsu) , welcomed attendees to the Chesford Grange Hotel for the new-style one-day event and began proceedings by referring to the uncertain ‘political and economic’ climate that would face the medical profession post-Brexit.

Richard Whittington delivered a review of the year in which the chief operating officer announced plans for a centralised system of Primary Eyecare Companies (PEC). Whittington also notified the audience that ‘step down care’ would be renamed as community monitoring services.