The positions are open to all GOC-registered optometrists and dispensing opticians. Reviewers help ensure GOC registrants are undertaking CPD appropriate to their scope of practice and professional development needs, while maintaining good-quality CPD records.
This report sets out how we have ensured our compliance with the Welsh Language Standards from 1 April 2025 to 31 March 2026. This has included considering Welsh language impacts at an earlier stage in decision-making and continuing to improve access to services for Welsh speakers.
The GOC has published updated Hearings and Indicative Sanctions guidance, which improves clarity for Fitness to Practise Committees (FtPCs) when considering applying sanctions as part of fitness to practise proceedings.
The GOC is encouraging registrants to review their progress and carry out and log Continuing Professional Development (CPD) activity regularly as the 2025-27 CPD cycle reaches its halfway point.
The GOC is launching a consultation on a draft updated statement on the testing of sight and draft revisions to the supervision/delegation standard in the Standards of Practice for Optometrists and Dispensing Opticians and the Standards for Optical Students.
The Code of Conduct provides guidance to assist members in undertaking their duties and outlines corporate and individual responsibilities of the Council and our statutory duty to promote, protect and maintain the health and safety of the public.
The GOC has appointed Janice McCrudden as its first Head of Optometric Advice to ensure its work is informed by high‑quality, independent clinical insight and professional expertise across its core functions.
Our public perceptions research looks at the public’s views and experiences of using eye care services. The research was carried out by DJS Research, interviewing a representative sample of 2,014 people in the UK between 9 February - 2 March 2026.
Steve Brooker, Director of Regulatory Strategy, discusses the GOC's upcoming consultation on a proposed draft updated statement on the testing of sight.
Enventure Research was commissioned to explore patient and public views on sight testing using teleoptometry models to inform the GOC’s review of its 2013 statement on testing of sight
The GOC has signed up to the Workforce Race Equity in Health and Social Care: Shared Principles for Regulators to help tackle longstanding racism experienced by health and social care staff.
The General Optical Council (GOC) has decided to erase Bansri Rughani and Sapna Bariya from its register, and suspend Meera Patel and Maneeka Kothari from its register for two months.
