Information & Guidance

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•  Business Advice and Support Services (FODO members only)

 

• CET (Continuing Education and Training)

 

• CET Rules, GOC bulletin, June 2005

 

• Claims, Guidance on Making Accurate

 

• Clinical Governance

 

• Clinical Governance & Service Level Agreements, Standard Responses to PCTs / Health Boards, February 2007

 

• Clinical Governance Toolkit, Quality in Optometry, February 2007

  

• Commissioning Toolkit for Community-Based Eye Care Services, January 2007

 

• Crime, Professional Countersignature Fraud, July 2006

 

• Crime, Combatting, 1997

 

• CVI (Certificate of Visual Impairment), November 2005

 

• Developing a New Partnership Contract for Community Eye Care in England, Professor Bosanquet, February 2006

 

• Domiciliary Eyecare

  

• Fees

 

• Fees 2007-08: Sight Test, Domiciliary, CET, Pre-registration, OFRC, November 2007

 

• Fees 2006-07: Sight Test, Domiciliary, CET, Pre-registration, OFRC, November 2006 

 

• General Ophthalmic Services: Activity Statistics for England and Wales, year ending 31 March 2006, July 2006

 

• General Ophthalmic Services (GOS) in England, guidance on provision of, October 2006

 

• General Ophthalmic Services: Workforce Statistics for England and Wales at 31 December 2005, October 2006

 

• GOC Registrant Retention Forms 2007, December 2006

 

• GOC, Rules Papers, June 2005

 

• GOS, transition to new contracts

 

• GOS

 

• GOS Review Findings, January 2007

 

• Insurance, Professional Liability (FODO members only)

 

• Irvine Aitchison Memorial Fund Bursary 2007 & 2008

 

• Lobbying guidance, November 2005

 

• LOC Model Constitution, March 2003

 

• Making Accurate Claims, England, Scotland, Wales, 2006 - 2007: see Claims, Guidance on Making Accurate

  

• MHRA Registration, 2006

• NHS Computer Codes

 

• Optics at a Glance, December 2007

 

• Ophthalmic Lists - an Easy Guide, April 2005 

 

• PCTs: Ophthalmic and Supplementary Lists

 

• Post Payment Verification Protocol, BSC Wales, November 2006

 

• Post Payment Verification Guidance on Protocol, BSC Wales, November 2006

 

• Post Payment Verification, Protocol & Guidance combined, BSC Wales, November 2006

 

• Primary Eyecare In England: A Vision for the Future, October 2005

 

• Professional Liability Insurance (FODO members only)

 

• Quality in Optometry, February 2007

 

• Regulation of Health Professionals, February 2007

 

• Scotland

 

• Sight Test and Voucher Entitlements, poster and card, 2008-09

 

• Sight Tests Volume & Workforce Survey, Great Britain, 2005/06

 

• Statistics

 

• Supervision

 

• Trust, Assurance and Safety - The Regulation of Health Professionals in the 21st Century, Government White Paper, February 2007

 

• VAT

 

• Vouchers

 

• Vouchers at a Glance, 2006-07

 

• Voucher values, 2007 - 2008

 

• Wales

 

• Web Links