New Zealand Association of Optometrists (NZAO)

The New Zealand Association of Optometrists is an incorporated society whose objects include a commitment to high quality eye health care for all New Zealanders. The NZAO membership includes around 94% of the practising Optometrists in this country thus represents nearly all the primary providers of eye health services for New Zealand.

Optometrists who are members of the NZ Association of Optometrists are bound by professional ethics and clinical guidelines to provide the highest standards of eye health and vision care.

The New Zealand Association of Optometrists began in Wellington on 1 February 1912, when a small group formed the New Zealand Optical Association. Although the Association went into recess during World War I, it was revived in 1922 as the Institute of Optometrists of New Zealand Inc.

The New Zealand Association of Optometrists (NZAO) is committed to high quality eye health care for all New Zealanders. Optometrist members of the NZAO are bound by professional ethics and clinical guidelines to provide the highest standards of eye health and vision care.