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.