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Liverpool LOC WhatsApp Community

21 September 2025

Liverpool LOC have a new way of sharing updates via our WhatsApp Community group. This is suitable for Optometrists, Dispensing Opticians, Contact Lens Opticians and optical practices.

 

Announcements may include PCSE, PES schemes updates, CPD events, hospital updates and anything new happening around the Liverpool Optometry community. We anticipate only a handful of announcements per month.

Please note “Privacy on communities: Your personal messages and calls in communities are protected with end-to-end encryption. No one outside the chat, not even WhatsApp, can read, listen to, or share them.

To protect user privacy, your phone number is only visible to community admins, people who have saved your number in their contacts, or those who have your number from your other chats.”

 

Please join via the link or QR code below!

https://chat.whatsapp.com/BeD6B11EDTJCUPzhdRcO4H

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