Accreditation
Standards Review - Entry-Level Optometry Programs
The timetable for the review is as follows:
Accreditation Standards Review Timeline
The discussion paper for the review is available here.
Submissions
OCANZ received the following submissions:
Accreditation/Australian-Commission-on-Safety-and-Quality-in-Health-Care.pdf
Accreditation/Australian-Dental-Council.pdf
Accreditation/Australian-Pharmacy-Council.pdf
Accreditation/Deakin-University.pdf
Accreditation/Flinders-University.pdf
Accreditation/Ministry-of-Health-New-Zealand.pdf
Accreditation/Optometry-Board-of-Australia.pdf
Accreditation/Professor-Fiona-Stapleton.pdf
Accreditation/Queensland-Office-of-the-Health-Ombudsman.pdf
Accreditation/Queensland-University-of-Technology.pdf
Accreditation/University-of-Auckland.pdf
Accreditation/University-of-New-South-Wales.pdf
Response to Submissions and Draft Standards
An analysis of the submissions and overall conclusions is available here Analysis-of-Feedback-Final.pdf
Proposed Standards, open for consultation until Friday 1 October 2021, are available here Accreditation/Proposed-OCANZ-Accreditation-Standards-FINAL.pdf
Recommended Standards
Finalised standards, available here, have now been recommended by the OCANZ Board to the Optometry Board of Australia for approval.