April 3rd 2016

Come Along to Meet the OCCS at Optrafair 2016

The OCCS team are looking forward to meeting with practitioners and stakeholders at this year’s Optrafair in Birmingham.

We are running workshop sessions on Saturday 9th and Sunday 10th April to help practitioners by:

Helping to see consumer complaints coming…prevention is better than cure!
Giving an overview of OCCS activity
Discussing the new Practice Standard 18 and impact of other new standards which came into effect on 1 April 2016

Click here to book on to one of our CET workshop sessions or contact OCCS

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