The Audiencia Nacional (Spanish National Court) dismissed in full a challenge by the Professional Association of Ophthalmologists of Spain (APOE) to the competences taught in optometry degrees. The Court also confirmed that opticians-optometrists may refer to the people they care for as “patients”, as no legal provision reserves the term for the medical profession. In a related case, the Court refused APOE’s request to suspend the VEO children’s vision programme, which the General Council of Spanish Colleges of Opticians-Optometrists (CGCOO) runs with the Spanish Ministry of Health. The full article, by Ignacio J. Costa González, CGCOO Secretary General can be found here.