Fitness to practise complaints
If you want to make a complaint about a registrant’s fitness to practise, more information is available in our booklet, 'How to complain about an optician'.
Assistance with making a complaint
If you require additional support to help you make a complaint, please telephone us on 0207 580 3898 (select option 2) or email us at ftp@optical.org.
How to complain about an optician
This booklet is available to download:
How to complain about an optician
To receive a paper copy of this booklet, contact our Fitness to practise team .
To make a complaint about a registrant, the first step is to fill in the Referral Form, ensuring you complete the final page in full.
[Electronic Communication: Please note that we will sometimes use a secure communication system called Egress to communicate with you via email. This will require you to log into the Egress secure portal to view our communications. Details of how to do this will be provided.]
Acceptance Criteria
We assess all new referrals against our published Acceptance Criteria. The criteria help us to decide whether or not a referral constitutes an allegation that a registrant's fitness to practise is impaired:
The GOC will not investigate referrals that do not meet its Acceptance Criteria.
Referral Form
When completing the Referral Form (below) you need to provide details to enable us to gather evidence about your complaint. The details we need include information about any relevant documents and the identity of any witnesses.
You can complete the form electronically. However, you must still physically sign it and send it in by post. If you would rather complete the form by hand, please choose the pdf version.
(version to complete electronically)
(version to complete by hand)
For more information about fitness to practise complaints, please see our booklet “How to complain about an optician".
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Standards of practice
Our standards of practice explain what is expected of our registrants.
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