The General Optical Council are an organisation which regulates optical professionals in the United Kingdom. They set standards, hold a register, quality assure education and investigate complaints.
They regulate:
We review the performance of the General Optical Council each year. We give our report to Parliament and publish our report on our website. We also review every decision made by the regulator's final fitness to practise panels. We include recent cases on this page. See more cases.
Read our latest Performance Review of the GOC.
Our latest review of the GOC is published with the GOC meeting 22 out of 24 of the Standards of Good Regulation
See our two-page snapshot which gives an at a glance summary of what we found in our performance review.
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