Useful Contacts

Disclosure Scotland

Disclosure Scotland helps employers make safer decisions when they’re recruiting people.  

General Optical Council

GOC are regulator for the optical professions in the UK. They currently register around 30,000 optometrists, dispensing opticians, student optometrists and dispensing opticians, and optical businesses.  
Find out more at General Optical Council.

Health Board Contacts for Registration

Contacts to register for all Health Boards can be found by logging into eyes.scot

NHS Education for Scotland – Optometry

NES Optometry exists to up-skill community eyecare teams, who provide NHS care under the General Ophthalmic Services (GOS) contract, to enable them to provide high quality eyecare and to improve the ocular health of patients throughout Scotland.

NSS IT External Portal

Log in to the NSS IT External Portal make Requests and Report Incidents.  An nhs.scot account is required.