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| October 20, 2006 | COPYRIGHT 2003 Reed Business Information Ltd. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

With just 11 weeks to go, more than half of registered dispensing opticians have yet to earn enough CET points to meet the General Optical Council's requirements.Figures published this week by the GOC revealed that just 45 per cent of DOs compared to 69 per cent of optometrists and 57 per cent of contact lens opticians have so far earned - and confirmed - the required 36 CET points ahead of December 31 2006. A total of 15,785 practitioners are now registered on cetoptics.com. Just over 500 practitioners have still not registered on the Vantage site.Practitioners who do not meet CET requirements have a 'grace period' of 10 weeks to make up points or risk being struck off the …

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