Our guidance for therapeutics has been produced to assist appropriately qualified optometrists in their prescribing practice.
This Guidance provides advice on the conduct that is expected of optometrist prescribers who are on one of the GOC specialist registers. If an optometrist deviates from the advice in this document the reason for this should be carefully documented. If a complaint is made against an optometrist, the General Optical Council’s Fitness to Practise Committee would take account of this document and those to which it makes reference. The optometrist would be expected to justify any decision to act outside its terms.
This guidance suggests how you might keep your log of prescribing evidence that is required by the GOC of prescribing registrants. We suggest that it can be collated in different ways, depending on your needs and you can choose whether to use this guidance and our suggested templates.
