General Optical Council

Staff contacts

Site hierarchy

In this section we give you details of who to contact if you have any queries.

Registrar and Chief Executive's office 
Education
Human resources
Fitness to practise investigation and criminal prosecutions
Hearings management
Standards
Administration, finance, human resources
Registration and IT
Communications

 Registrar and Chief Executive’s office

Registrar/Chief Executive
Peter Coe
email: reg@optical.org

Executive Assistant to Registrar and Chairman
Naomi Ford
email: nford@optical.org
Contact me for all contact with the Registrar and Chairman

 


 Education

Deputy Registrar/Director of Education
Dian Taylor
email: dtaylor@optical.org

PA to Deputy Registrar/Director of Education
Kelly Parker
email: kparker@optical.org 
Contact me for:

  • Queries for Dian Taylor, Deputy Registrar/Director of Education
  • CET
  • General education queries
  • Queries about practising in the UK with overseas qualifications

Assistant Director of Education
Linda Kennaugh
email: lkennaugh@optical.org

Contact me for:

  • Visits to training institutions and scheme providers
  • Meetings related to the education function
  • Visitor panel selection
  • Education enquiries

Education Officer
Agnieszka Knapik
email: aknapik@optical.org
Contact me for:

  • Educational visit enquiries
  • Travel and hotel arrangements for educational visits
  • General education enquiries, including CET

 

 

Human Resources

Head of Human Resources and Organisational Development
Lesa Oakley
email: loakley@optical.org
Contact me for:

  • All HR issues
  • Organisational development

 

  
Fitness to practise investigation and criminal prosecutions

Director of Legal and Fitness to Practise
Philip Grey
email: pgrey@optical.org

PA to Director of Legal and Fitness to Practise
Jazmine Calfost
email: jcalfost@optical.org

Fitness to Practise Investigations Manager
Nirupar Uddin
email: nuddin@optical.org

Legal Assistant
Hannah Britz
email: hbritz@optical.org

Contact us for:

 

 

Hearings management

Hearings Manager
David Henley
email: dhenley@optical.org
Contact me for:

  • All aspects of fitness to practise and registration appeal committee hearings
  • Permission to use a ‘protected’ title when forming a limited company

 

 

 Standards

Director of Standards
Jon Levett
email: jlevett@optical.org
Contact me for policy enquiries on standards issues such as:

  • Codes of conduct
  • Competencies
  • Sale and supply of optical appliances
  • Prescriptions
  • Supply and administration of ophthalmic drugs

Project Support Officer
Maria Claridge
email: mclaridge@optical.org
Contact me for all enquiries concerning the implementation of the White Paper, Trust, Assurance and Safety - The Regulation of Health Professionals in the 21st Century



Administration and finance

Director of Corporate Resources
Philip Ireland
email: pireland@optical.org

PA to the Director of Corporate Resources and  Director of Standards
Joan Burrow
email: jburrow@optical.org

Contact me for:
  • Queries for Director of Corporate Resources, Director of Legal and Fitness to Practise, Director of Standards
  • Queries regarding the administration of the following committees and their associated working groups: Finance and Procedure, Standards, Registration and Companies

Senior Finance Officer
Carol Ayton
email:cayton@optical.org 

Management Accountant
Amarjit Samra
email: asamra@optical.org

Contact us for:

  • All accounts queries
  • Member/ staff expenses   

Services Officer
Jacob Sanchez
email: jsanchez@optical.org
Contact me for:

  • Queries regarding our premises
  • Change of personal details
  • General enquiries

Office Assistant
Georgina Devoy
email: gdevoy@optical.org
Contact me for:

  • Hotel and travel bookings
  • Office adminstration  

 

 

  Registration and IT

IT/Registration Manager
Alan Currie
email: superinfo@optical.org
Contact me for:

  • Registration management
  • IT management and development
  • Data sales

Registration Assistants
Jeanne Wymer
email: jwymer@optical.org

Luci Noel
email: lnoel@optical.org

Amy Capeda
email: acapeda@optical.org

Sarah Baseley
email: sbaseley@optical.org

Laura Hytti
email: lhytti@optical.org

Contact us for:

  • Registration queries
  • Registration payments
  • CET queries
  • Change of name/ address 

 

 

Communications

Head of Communications
Kate Fielding
email: kfielding@optical.org

Communications Officer
Clare Millington
email: cmillington@optical.org

Contact us for:

  • Media enquiries
  • Use of the GOC logo
  • Contributions to or queries about Bulletin
  • Copies of GOC publications (including accessible formats)
  • Joining our press release or other mailing lists
  • Updates to information directories and databases 
  • Website queries