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01 Jan 2025

Provider Guide for CPD

A guide for any individual or organisation with a role in developing and delivering Continuing Professional Development (CPD) to optometrists and dispensing opticians registered with the GOC.

Guidance
01 Jan 2025

CPD: A guide for registrants

This guide explains the requirements for each registrant group and aims to help our registrants understand the requirements of the CPD scheme.

Guidance
01 Oct 2021

Speaking up

Guidance to help registrants in situations where they need to consider the professional requirement to speak up when patient or public safety may be at risk or when they have concerns about propriety, such as when they observe something that appears seriously wrong or not in accordance with accepted standards.

Guidance
01 Jan 2020

Disclosing confidential information

This guidance is for registrants in situations where they need to consider the professional requirement to maintain confidentiality alongside the need to ensure protection of patients and the public.

Guidance
01 Jan 2020

Consent

Guidance to help our registrants to understand the concept of consent, and how this should be applied in practice. It is a professional requirement for registrants to ensure that they obtain valid consent. This guidance will support you in understanding consent, capacity to consent, and how to manage situations where consent might be withheld or withdrawn.

Guidance
01 Jan 2020

The professional duty of candour

Guidance to help our registrants to understand the professional duty of candour. All healthcare professionals have this duty; this is a professional responsibility to be open, honest and transparent with patients when things go wrong.

Guidance
01 Jul 2017

Warnings Guidance

This guidance aims to assist the GOC’s investigatory decision makers (case examiners and the Investigation Committee) to determine when it is appropriate to issue a warning.

Guidance
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