The National Health Service (Ophthalmic Services) (Wales) Regulations 2023

Training

28.—(1) A contractor must ensure that the persons specified in sub-paragraph (2) undertake training, as required by the Local Health Board on whose list the contractor is included, which—

(a) must include annual training for the purpose of maintaining and updating the individual’s professional skills and knowledge in relation to the services that person performs, assists with or supports;

(b) may include other ad-hoc or one-off training for that purpose.

(2) The persons are—

(a) the contractor, except where the contractor is a corporate optician;

(b) those employed by the contractor under paragraph 18(1) to assist in the provision of primary ophthalmic services;

(c) others employed by the contractor who support the persons listed at (b) in the performance of such services.

(3) A contractor may not employ or otherwise engage a qualified practitioner in relation to the provision of primary ophthalmic services unless the contractor is satisfied that the qualified practitioner has the clinical experience and training necessary to enable them to properly perform the services that they are to be required to perform.