General Optical Council

 Registrar and Chief Executive’s office

Acting Registrar/Chief Executive
Dian Taylor
email: reg@optical.org
email: dtaylor@optical.org

Executive Assistant to Registrar and Chairman
Naomi Ford
email: nford@optical.org
Contact me for all contact with the Registrar and Chairman

 Education

 Acting Director of Education
Linda Kennaugh
email: lkennaugh@optical.org

Contact me for:

• Visits to training institutions and scheme providers
• Meetings related to the education function
• Visitor panel selection
• Education enquiries

PA to Director of Education
Kelly Parker
email: kparker@optical.org 
Contact me for:

• Queries for Linda Kennaugh, acting Director of Education
• General education queries
• Queries about practising in the UK with overseas qualifications

CET Manager
Jo Glover
email: jglover@optical.org
Contact me for any issues or enquiries relating to the CET scheme

 Human Resources and Administration

Director of Human Resources and Organisational Development
Lesa Oakley
email: loakley@optical.org

Human Resources and IT Officer
Agnieszka Knapik
email: aknapik@optical.org

Contact us for:

• All HR issues
• Organisational development

Services Officer
Jacob Sanchez
email: jsanchez@optical.org
Contact me for:

• Queries regarding our premises
• Change of personal details
• General enquiries

• Hotel and travel bookings
• Office adminstration  

Hearings management

Hearings Manager
David Henley
email: dhenley@optical.org
Contact me for:

• All aspects of fitness to practise and registration appeal committee hearings
• Permission to use a ‘protected’ title when forming a limited company

   
Fitness to Practise investigation and criminal prosecutions

Director of Legal and Fitness to Practise
Philip Grey
email: pgrey@optical.org

PA to Director of Legal and Fitness to Practise
Jazmine Calfost
email: jcalfost@optical.org

Senior Solicitor/Assistant Director of Legal Services
Kisha Punchihewa
email: kpunchihewa@optical.org

Fitness to Practise Investigations Manager
Nirupar Uddin
email: nuddin@optical.org

Legal Assistant
Georgina Devoy
email: gdevoy@optical.org

Contact us for:

• Concerns about registrants’ fitness to practise
• Fitness to practise investigations
• Potential criminal actions

  Standards

Acting Deputy Registrar/ Director of Standards
Jon Levett
email: jlevett@optical.org

Contact me for policy enquiries on standards issues such as:

• Codes of conduct
• Competencies
• Sale and supply of optical appliances
• Prescriptions
• Supply and administration of ophthalmic drugs

• Queries for Director of Standards 
• Queries regarding the administration of the following committees and their associated working groups: Audit, Finance and Procedure and Standards

Assistant Director of Standards
Grahame Tinsley
email: gtinsley@optical.org

• Codes of conduct
• Sale and supply of optical appliances
• Supply and administration of ophthalmic drugs
• Revalidation scheme for optometrists and dispensing opticians

Project and Council Officer
Maria Claridge
email: mclaridge@optical.org

Contact me for all enquiries concerning the implementation of the White Paper, Trust, Assurance and Safety - The Regulation of Health Professionals in the 21st Century