General Optical Council

It is essential that eye care practitioners maintain the up to date skills and knowledge needed to practise safely and effectively throughout their career. To ensure this, the GOC oversees a mandatory CET scheme.

CET is a statutory requirement for all fully-qualified optometrists and dispensing opticians. The GOC CET scheme is a points-based scheme that runs over a three-year cycle. All full registrants must earn a minimum number of CET points by the end of each cycle to stay on the registers.

The GOC provides a website to allow everyone to manage their CET portfolio and to inform the GOC of the CET they have completed.  It is run by Vantage Technologies under contract to the GOC. The GOC’s CET website address is www.cetoptics.com.

How the scheme works
The current CET cycle runs from 1 January 2007 to 31 December 2009. Full registrants need to earn and confirm the required number of CET points by 31 December 2009 to be eligible to renew their registration in 2010. Registrants have to earn their points, then confirm them on the cetoptics website.

Download the principles and requirements of the CET scheme.
CET principles and requirements