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| Location: ABDO, 199 Gloucester, London | |
| Contact: For further details contact Sally Bates on 020 8504 0967 or email identity@sallybates.com | |
| email: identity@sallybates.com | |
| Tel: 020 8504 0967 | |
| Optical Assistants Course, divided into five sessions covering communication skills, frame styling, frame materials and adjustments, the latest lens information and basic dispensing techniques. The course will prepare delegates for the Worshipful Company of Spectacle Makers examination, which is optional.
A VRQ (Vocationally Related Qualification) Level 2 Certificate will be awarded upon the candidate’s successful written exam. Five-week course, Tuesdays 1pm – 6pm, £300. |
| Area 5 (Midlands) - AGM 7 October 2008 | |
| Location: Venue to be confirmed. | |
| Contact: For further details email Ian Hardwick at ian@ihardwick.orangehome.co.uk or telephone 07814 558343. | |
| email: ian@ihardwick.orangehome.co.uk | |
| Tel: 07814 558343 |
| BCLA speakers at PAC Conference 12 October 2008 | |
| Location: Birmingham ICC | |
| Contact: Further details visit www.bcla.org.uk or contact Vivien Freeman 020 7580 6661 or email vfreeman@bcla | |
| email: vfreeman@bcla | |
| Tel: 020 7580 6661 | |
| Link: http://www.bcla.org.uk |
| Area 11 - Area AGM followed by 'Growing a Healthy Contact Lens Business' by Jayne Schofield 15 October 2008 | |
| Location: At the Royal National Hotel, 38/51 Bedford Way, London WC1H 0DG (nearest tube: Russell Square). | |
| Contact: Further details from Hishu Monji@yahoo.co.uk | |
| email: Hishu Monji@yahoo.co.uk |
| Silmo 2008 30 October to 2 November 2008 | |
| Organisation: Promosalons UK | |
| Contact: Contact Promosalons UK, Michele Jackson on 020 8216 3109 or email Michele@promosalons.co.uk | |
| email: Michele@promosalons.co.uk | |
| Tel: 020 8216 3109 | |
| Link: http://www.silmo.fr |
| Sight Care Group - Patient communcation, complaint handling and service excellence November 2008 | |
| Location: Newcastle, Scotland, Bristol, London, Birmingham, Manchester, and Belfast | |
| Contact: For further details contact Sight Care group 01256 781522 or email info@sightcare.co.uk |
| Sight Care Group – ‘Maximising practice dispensing’ November - December 2008 | |
| Location: Belfast, Scotland, Newcastle, Bristol, London, Birmingham, Manchester. | |
| Contact: For further details contact Sight Care Group on 01256 781522 or email info@sightcare.co.uk | |
| email: info@sightcare.co.uk | |
| Tel: 01256 781522 |
| Sight Care Group – ‘Effective practice management and marketing' November 2008 | |
| Location: Bristol, London, Birmingham, Manchester, Belfast, Scotland, Newcastle | |
| Contact: For further details contact Sight Care Group on 01256 781522 or email info@sightcare.co.uk | |
| email: info@sightcare.co.uk | |
| Tel: 01256 781522 |
| BCLA - One-day hands-on CET Courses 2 November 2008 | |
| Location: Institute of Optometry, London. | |
| Contact: For further details visit www.bcla.org.uk or Vivien Freeman on 020 7580 6661 | |
| email: vfreeman@bcla.org.uk | |
| Tel: 020 7580 6661 | |
| Link: http://www.bcla.org.uk | |
| 'Getting up to speed with contacts' and 'Enhancing expertise in contact lens practise'. |
| Area 2 (North East) - ‘The practice of the future (is here now)’ 4 November 2008 | |
| Organisation: Sponsored by Ocuco | |
| Contact: Contact Keith Dickinson on 0113 293 7456 or email keithdickinson@kdickinson.wanadoo.co.uk | |
| email: keithdickinson@kdickinson.wanadoo.co.uk | |
| Tel: 0113 293 7456 | |
| 1.5 CET Points |
| Area 12 (Scotland) - 'Solutions - why they work, why they don't' by Steve Whittaker MCOptom 11 November 2008 | |
| Location: McDiarmid Park, Crieff Road, Perth PH1 2SJ. | |
| Contact: For further details contact Brenda Rennie. | |
| email: brendarennie@f2s.com | |
| CET Points: 1 | |
| 1CL point, C-9352 EV-18123 |
| Area 2 (North East) - ‘The practice of the future (is here now)’ 12 November 2008 | |
| Organisation: Sponsored by Ocuco | |
| Contact: For further details contact Keith Dickinson on 0113 293 7456 or email keithdickinson@kdickinson.wana | |
| email: keithdickinson@kdickinson.wana | |
| Tel: 0113 293 7456 | |
| CET Points: 1. | |
| 1.5 CET points. |
| Identity Optical Training - ABDO Final Year Practical Exam Revision Courses 16 and 17 November 2008 | |
| Location: Manchester | |
| Contact: For further details contact Sally Bates on 020 8504 0967 | |
| email: identity@sallybates.com | |
| £60 per day |
| BCLA - 5th BCLA Pioneers Conference, half-day CET course 18 November 2008 | |
| Location: At the Royal Society of Medicine, 1 Wimpole Street, London W1. | |
| Contact: For further details contact visit www.bcla.org.uk or email vfreeman@bcla.co.uk | |
| email: vfreeman@bcla.co.uk | |
| Link: http://www.bcla.org.uk | |
| Half-day CET course followed by Pioneers Lecture by Professor Nathan Efron. Free of charge and open only to BCLA members and new members joining before the event. |
| Identity Optical Training - ABDO Final Year Practical Exam Revision Courses 23 and 24 November 2008 | |
| Location: London | |
| Contact: For further details contact Sally Bates on 020 8504 0967 | |
| email: identity@sallybates.com | |
| £60 per day |
| ABDO Graduation and Prizegiving 26 November 2008 | |
| Location: Canterbury Cathedral, Canterbury, Kent. | |
| Contact: | |
| Link: http://www.gownhire.co.uk | |
| Graduands will be able to book their gown hire and reserve guest tickets etc. This will be open from the 26th August 2008 for Graduand Bookings and Information about the ABDO Graduation. For further details visit http://www.gownhire.co.uk |
| Area 3 (North West) - AGM and Speaker (to be confirmed) 3 December 2008 | |
| Location: The De Vere Daresbury Park, Warrington. | |
| Contact: For further details contact Mike Stokes on 01204 411722 | |
| Tel: 01204 411722 | |
| Sir Anthony Garrett and President Barry Duncan will be attending.
Buffet 6pm and meeting at 7pm. |
| Identity Optical Training - ABDO Final Year Mock Practical Exams 7 December 2008 | |
| Location: Manchester | |
| Contact: For further details contact Sally Bates on 020 8504 0967 | |
| email: identity@sallybates.com | |
| Tel: 020 8504 0967 | |
| £75 per section.
For all sections with comprehensive feedback from experienced examiners. |
| Identity Optical Training - ABDO Final Year Mock Practical Exams 15 December 2008 | |
| Location: London | |
| Contact: For further details contact Sally Bates on 020 8504 0967 | |
| email: identity@sallybates.com | |
| Tel: 020 8504 0967 | |
| £75 per section.
For all sections with comprehensive feedback from experienced examiners. |
| Identity Optical Training - Pre-Registration Dispensing Programme for trainee DOs. January - March 2009 | |
| Location: London 11am to 4pm Mondays. | |
| Contact: For further details contact Sally Bates on 020 8504 0967 | |
| email: identity@sallybates.com | |
| Tel: 020 8504 0967 | |
| 5-week course. £300.
Also for those returning to the profession and pre-registration optometrists. |
| Identity Optical Training - Optical Assistants VRQ (Vocationally Related Qualification) Level 3 January - May 2009 | |
| Location: London. Mondays 1pm - 6pm. 3 sessions. | |
| Contact: For further details contact Sally Bates on 020 8504 0967 | |
| email: identity@sallybates.com | |
| Tel: 020 8504 0967 | |
| £300. |
| BCLA - One-day hands-on CET Courses 18 March 2009 | |
| Location: Cardiff University (Glasgow date to be confirmed). | |
| Contact: For further details visit www.bcla.org.uk or Vivien Freeman on 020 7580 6661 | |
| email: vfreeman@bcla.org.uk | |
| Tel: 020 7580 6661 | |
| Link: http://www.bcla.org.uk | |
| 'Getting up to speed with contacts' and 'Enhancing expertise in contact lens practise'. |
| Optrafair 4 - 6 April 2009 | |
| Location: The NEC, Birmingham. | |
| Contact: For further details visit www.optrafair.com | |
| Link: http://www.optrafair.com |
| BCLA - 33rd BCLA Clinical Conference and Exhibition 28 - 31 May 2009 | |
| Location: Manchester Central, Manchester. | |
| Contact: For further details visit www.bcla.org.uk or Vivien Freeman on 020 7580 6661 | |
| email: vfreeman@bcla.org.uk | |
| Tel: 020 7580 6661 | |
| Link: http://www.bcla.org.uk | |
| ABDO - 2009 Conference and Exhibition 3 - 5 October 2009 | |
| Location: Hilton Brighton Metropole, Brighton | |
| Contact: For further details contact the ABDO Conference office (Event Exchange Ltd) on 01225 869 000 | |
| email: rsvp@eventexchange.co.uk | |
| Tel: 01225 869 000 | |
| Link: htto://abdconference.co.uk |