Baines and Patel join GOC committees

Two new appointments have been made by the General Optical Council’s advisory committees.

Paula Baines has joined the GOC’s Standards Committee and Mitesh Patel has become a member of its Companies Committee.

The regulator has also announced eight new Hearings Panel chairs, who will chair fitness to practise and registration appeal hearings. From 1 July this year, hearings will be chaired by Eileen Carr, Ian Crookall, Sara Fenoughty, Anne Johnstone, James Kellock, Rachel O’Connell, Pamela Ormerod and Valerie Paterson.

Baines, a dispensing development manager at Vision Express, was to replace Glenn Tomison as a dispensing optician member of the Standards Committee, following his appointment to Council.