Letter: Evidence-based practice? Ask the College

Actus questions the point of evidence-based practice (‘Where’s the evidence for evidence-based practice’ Optician 9.3.18). The point is to support best practice and public trust. For any profession to be defined and trusted by the public, it needs to be continuously reviewing, renewing and revising the evidence that underpins existing practice and informs the development of new practice.

As the professional body for optometry, the College takes its public interest duty, as the impartial custodian of the specialist knowledge that optometric practice is founded upon, very seriously. And this is more important in a profession that mostly operates in a commercial setting.