Optometry Australia represents the largest community of optometrists in Australia. Because we are 100% owned by our members, no other organisation understands optometry like us or has a more influential voice. Since 1918 we have united the sector to make Australia a world leader in the delivery of vision and eye health services and patient care. 

 

Benefits of membership
Membership means joining Australia’s largest community of optometry professionals and having access to the networks, support and guidance to succeed.

 

Our members came first in all we do. We are here to support them and to sustain and evolve optometry and community eye health. 

We support members at every step of their career journey from university to retirement. We offer all members access to a wide range of professional services, patient and clinical management advice and resources, best-in-class professional indemnity insurance, quality education, audit support, networking forums and marketing tools. We support the sector’s continued evolution through our advocacy programs that ensure that we have a seat and the voice of optometrists is heard at the decision-making table.

 

Through the work that we do, and the services that we provide, our members:

During the FY2021-2024 strategic period, we will maintain our focus on the pillars of leading, uniting, engaging and promoting optometry, optometrists and community eye health. We have set ambitious goals to achieve within these pillars – as outlined in this strategy document. We have four goals in particular, that we believe are critical to meet for the sustainability of the profession, and for us, as your membership organisation. 

These include: 

1.      Evolving scope of practice: Optometry must evolve to meet the rapidly changing demographic, technology, societal and economic conditions. We will strongly advocate for our highly-skilled optometry workforce to be utilised at their maximum scope across the health system, and for the profession’s scope of practice to evolve to meet community need.

2.      Continuing professional education: Ongoing education is the driver of change and supports optometrists’ ability to meet community eye health expectations, emergent eye health conditions and evolving scope of practice. This means we must provide the right education and tools in increasingly flexible learning environments to all members. 

3.      Structure optimisation: As a federated organisation, we must continue to challenge ourselves to find synergies in the way that we operate. This needs to ensure that we are generating greater efficiencies and more consistency in our member services. 

4.      Sustainability: To endure we must remain relevant not only as a profession but as an organisation. Collectively this means having a thorough understanding of the conditions that are moulding our future and having the foresight to innovate through the adoption of new services, new technologies, new skills and new ways of doing business.

 

You can find out more about our current focus on our website.

Want to chat to the OA team during Optometry Virtually Connected in real time, face to face?   Click on the Book a Meeting link on the righthand sidebar and select the time and date and who you wish to talk to...  Its simple and allows you to chat to the exhibitors in a one on one video call, right here within the OVC conference platform.   You can also find the team in the OA Networking Rooms at the allocated times listed on the agenda.