Associations
The Association of Optometrists (AOP)
Optometry Giving Sight is the official charity of the Association of Optometrists
The AOP is the professional representative body for optometrists in the UK. It has 11,000 members whose professional interests it safeguards and promotes.
The role of the AOP is to promote and protect its members, individually and collectively, with services and representation to enhance their professional and business activities.
The Aims of the Association of Optometrists:
The principal activities are to:
- 1. Represent individual optometrists, whatever their mode of practice.
The Association also represents a small number of dispensing opticians. - 2. Promote the professional and clinical independence of its members and the profession.
- 3. Encourage and assist in the development and promotion of high standards of practice.
- 4. Establish suitable arrangements for the defence, in disciplinary and professional matters,
of all members, whether in practice as principals, assistants, employers or employees. - 5. Advise on commercial, economic, legal and administrative aspects of practice.
- 6. Represent the interests of all of its members in negotiations for fees, other remuneration,
conditions and terms of service, where appropriate. - 7. Represent and promote the interests of all of its members to Parliament, Government and other institutions in the United Kingdom and the European Community.
