title: Effect of the Health and Social Security Bill 1984 on the profession of optometry in the United Kingdom.
abstract: The United Kingdom government introduced a Bill to Parliament in 1984 called The Health and Social Security Bill. This was, according to the government, introduced to break the monopoly on the supply of spectacles by qualified opticians. The subsequent changes in the law brought about by the new Act are outlined, and brief comments presented on the consequences of the new Act on the profession of optometry in the United Kingdom.
mesh_terms: D000329:Advertising; D005139:Eyeglasses; D007883:Legislation, Medical; D009907:Optometry / Q000191:economics* / Q000639:trends