Our aims are to ensure that optometrists' skills are constantly developed to meet new models of eye care and improve patient outcomes.
In our response, we have highlighted the critical role of primary eye care and the optometric workforce in delivering integrated, cost-effective NHS services.
Standards and guidance for non-medical eye healthcare professionals to deliver patient care in a multidisciplinary team setting.
From celebrating new graduates to launching our five-year plan, the final months of 2025 marked a powerful step toward the future of eye care.
This week, the Department of Health and Social Care published details of its confirmed NHS sight test fee and NHS domiciliary fees from 1 April 2025, continuing professional development payments for 2024, and clinical placement training payments from 1 April 2025.
From shaping eye care’s future to championing road safety, AI innovation, and inclusive learning – we made an impactful start to 2025.
The College of Optometrists presented its annual Research Excellence Awards to 2025’s winners at its prestigious annual Diploma and Awards Ceremony on 18 November at Central Hall in Westminster, London.
We welcomed 11 new Life and Honorary Fellows and three new Fellowships by Portfolio.
On Tuesday 18 November, the College welcomed over 450 new optometrists to the profession in two College Diploma Ceremonies held in Westminster, London.
The new framework recognises primary eye care as fundamental to NHS provision and local leadership.
Optometrists have evolved from prescribers of spectacles to crucial primary care providers, writes Becky McCall.
College-accredited higher qualifications reflect the evolving reality of day-to-day clinical optometry practice. They prepare optometrists for enhanced roles and expanded responsibilities.
We are concerned that primary eye care has been omitted as a priority opportunity in the framework.
The College of Optometrists used this year’s major political party conferences to promote key messages about optometry and eye health to MPs and ministers, aligning discussions with the NHS 10-year health plan.