A conditional registration order placed on optometrist Tanvir Kahlon in January 2012 has been lifted at a GOC fitness to practise hearing.
Kahlon was placed on conditional registration after a committee alleged that in 2010 and 2011 she failed to refer a patient to an ophthalmologist and inappropriately advised her to return in 12 months. On the return visit in April 2011, it was alleged that she misjudged the size of a lesion in the patient’s eye. In August 2011, the patient’s eye was removed after a possible ocular tumour was identified at Royal Liverpool University Hospital.
The committee said that from the outset, Kahlon had accepted responsibilities for her clinical failures and had gone to great lengths to improve her knowledge of how to understand ocular pathology and rectify her earlier misconduct. It added that it was impressed with the high standard of CET and PDP documents the registrant showed and that she now had the assistance of a highly supportive practitioner network.