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Eye care regulation Satisfaction

94% 94%

Across the UK, the Opticians Act is rightly focused on public Patients satisfied with their last Patients satisfied with
protection and provides a robust basis for the expansion of visit to primary eye care optometrist providing a sight test
primary eye care services covering:

• Requirements for the education, training registration, CPD, Public confidence in primary care
and professional standards of the core primary eye care
workforce.
• The regulation of sight testing and case-finding and the safe
provision of medical devices – including spectacles, contact
lenses and protective eyewear. 93% 86% 89%
Our analysis of the Opticians Act has shown it to be a robust,
efficient and effective patient protection legislation which has
stood the test of time, including enabling the safe adoption Pharmacists
of new technologies, care models and changing scope of Optometrist Dispensing
practice. This is evidenced by consistently high standards, opticians
enthusiasm for learning and CPD, low numbers of patient
complaints and few fitness to practise sanctions.

87%
Independent research shows
that public confidence in
Dentists
optometrists and dispensing
opticians is strong

84%

GPs

Source 27 Audiology

Pharmacy
GP Dentist

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