A professional body of optometrists in the country spies with its little eye that some practitioners may have been behaving badly.body as yet, over the past two years the Professional Board for Optometry and Dispensing Opticians has observed a “worrying” trend of complaints by conferences and industry eCurrently registered under the board’s auspices are 3 977 optometrists, including about 500 dispensing opticians.
Other complaints include said practitioners not using the minimum equipment list recommended when performing clinical examinations. “They also need to do a front or external examination of the eye, which, again, is done using a specialised light. Then they need to examine the pressure of the eye, just as doctors check your body pressure. They also need to check your visual field, which determines how wide you can see.”Another brow-raising trend being anecdotally complained about is the fitting and dispensing of contact lenses.
“We are doing this mainly to be proactive. When we go to professional engagements such as conferences we get optometrists who complain about their colleagues and having to deal with the consequences of their substandard treatment of patients.