Staff contacts

In this section we give you details of who to contact if you have any queries.

Our office hours are 9am – 5pm Mon - Thurs, 9am - 4.45pm Fridays only.

main switchboard: 020 7580 3898
email: goc@optical.org

You can visit us at:
41 Harley Street
London
W1G 8DJ

Registrar and chief executive's office
Education
Fitness to practise investigation and criminal prosecutions
Hearings management
Standards
Administration, finance, human resources
Registration and IT
Communications

Registrar and Chief Executive’s office

Registrar/Chief Executive
Peter Coe
email: reg@optical.org

Executive Assistant to Registrar and Chairman
Linda Kennaugh
email: lkennaugh@optical.org
Contact me for:

• all contact with the Registrar and Chairman
  

Education

Deputy Registrar/Director of Education
Dian Taylor
email: dtaylor@optical.org

PA to Deputy Registrar/Director of Education
Hayley Robinson
email: hrobinson@optical.org
contact me for:

• queries for Dian Taylor, Deputy Registrar/Director of Education
• CET
• general education queries
• queries about practising in the UK with overseas qualifications

Assistant Director of Education
Lesa Oakley
email: loakley@optical.org
contact me for:

• visits to training institutions and scheme providers
• meetings related to the education function
• visitor panel selection
• education enquiries

Education Assistant
Agnieszka Knapik
email:aknapik@optical.org
contact me for:

• educational visit enquiries
• travel and hotel arrangements
• general education enquiries, including CET

Fitness to practise investigation and criminal prosecutions

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

Solicitor & Criminal Prosecutions Manager
Nirupar Uddin
email: nuddin@optical.org

Kristy Hibberd

Legal Assistant

email: khibberd@optical.org

contact us for:

• concerns about registrants’ fitness to practise
• fitness to practise investigations
• potential criminal actions

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

Standards

Director of Standards
Jon Levett
email: jlevett@optical.org
contact me for:

• policy enquiries on standards issues: codes of conduct; competencies; sale and supply of optical appliances; prescriptions; supply and administration of ophthalmic drugs

Project Support Officer

Maria Claridge

email: mclaridge@optical.org

contact me for:

• Implementation of White Paper, Trust, Assurance and Safety - The Regulation of Health Professionals in the 21st Century

Administration, finance, human resources

Director of Corporate Resources
Philip Ireland
email: pireland@optical.org

PA to the Director of Corporate Resources, Director of Legal and Fitness to Practise, Director of Standards
Joan Burrow
email: jburrow@optical.org

contact me for:

• queries for Director of Corporate Resources, Director of Legal and Fitness to Practise, Director of Standards
• queries regarding the administration of the following committees and their associated working groups: Finance and Procedure, Standards, Registration and Companies

Finance Officer
Carol Ayton
email:cayton@optical.org

Administration Officer
Elizabeth Chambers
email:echambers@optical.org
contact me for:

• hearings panel/ Council members' accommodation and travel arrangements
• hearings panel/ Council members' claim form enquiries
• general accounts queries

Services Officer
Arly Nielsen
email: anielsen@optical.org
contact me for:

• queries regarding our premises
• change of personal details
• general enquiries

Office Assistant
Georgina Devoy
email: gdevoy@optical.org

Registration and IT

IT/Registration Manager
Alan Currie
email: superinfo@optical.org

contact me for:

• registration management
• IT management and development

Registration Assistants

Lisa Brent
email: lbrent@optical.org

Kellie Bain
email: kbain@optical.org

Samantha Algate
email: salgate@optical.org

Jeanne Wymer

email: jwymer@optical.org

Angie Lawson

email:alawson@optical.org

contact us for:

• registration queries
• registration payments
• CET queries
• change of name/ address

Communications

Head of Communications
Kate Fielding
email: kfielding@optical.org

Communications Officer
Clare Millington
email: cmillington@optical.org

contact us for:

• media enquiries
• use of the GOC logo
• contributions to or queries about Bulletin
• copies of GOC publications (including accessible formats)
• joining our press release or other mailing lists
• updates to information directories and databases