Current Consultations

The Board undertakes wide-ranging consultation on proposals that affect the profession.

Where there are consultations open for input, they will be shown below.

Where there are consultations which have closed, they will be shown under Past Consultations, along with the submissions that were received.

Public consultation – Review of the Registration standard: Endorsement for scheduled medicines and Guidelines for the use of scheduled medicines

Released: 27 October 2025
Closes: 24 December 2025

The Optometry Board of Australia is inviting stakeholders to have their say on the Review of the draft Registration standard: Endorsement for scheduled medicines (the standard) and Guidelines for use of scheduled medicines (the guidelines).

The public consultation documents which discuss the Board’s proposed revisions to the standard and guidelines are available below.

• Consultation pack (1.34 MB, PDF)
• Consultation snapshot (59.7 KB, PDF)
• Consumer guide (67.6 KB, PDF)
• Submissions template (230 KB, DOCX)

Supporting materials

The following documents referenced in the consultation papers are available for ease of access:

• Health Professionals Prescribing Pathway Report 2013 (3.46 MB, PDF)
• OCANZ QUT report - Prescribing oral medicines by optometrists - December 2020 (3.42 MB, PDF)

Making a submission

You can provide feedback by close of business on 24 December 2025 by one of two ways:

1. submitting your answers to the questions via a short survey.

or

2. using the submission template and sending it as a Word document (not PDF) by email to [email protected].

We will not provide separate responses to individuals who make a submission, but we will publish a public consultation report.

Publication of submissions

We publish submissions at our discretion. We generally publish submissions to our website to encourage discussion and inform the community and stakeholders about consultation responses. Published submissions will include the names of the individuals and/or organisations that made the submission unless confidentiality is expressly requested.

We will not place on our website, or make available to the public, submissions that contain offensive or defamatory comments or which are outside the scope of the subject to the consultation.

Please let us know if you do not want us to publish your submission or if you want us to treat all or part of it as confidential.