New guide for locum optometrists
If you are a locum optometrist, or engage locums, Industry Legal Group (ILG) has released a new guide for Optometry Australia members, containing legal advice when entering into a contract for service.
Increasingly rapid change, associated with technological, economic, political and demographic influences, is disrupting tried and true optometry practice models, working conditions, patient eye care, and clinician training requirements and communication. Change isn’t always positive, yet it brings opportunity if it can be embraced and channeled.
Our Optometry 2040 project, launched in 2018, used proven futures studies techniques – and broad consultation with our members, optometrists across the country and key sector stakeholders – to identify key trends shaping the future of eye health and eye care; the preferred and plausible futures for optometry; and key steps to realising these futures.
To help steer the profession towards its preferred futures, Optometry Australia has committed, among other things, to:
Watch our video, providing an overview of the future of optometry here, and read the Optometry 2040 project summary report here.
In the spirit of reconciliation Optometry Australia acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of country throughout Australia and their connections to land, sea and community. We pay our respects to their Elders past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples today.