Conditions for optometrist after patient complaint

Optometrist Arminder Panesar has been placed on an 18 month conditional registration order by a General Optical Council fitness to practise committee.

The committee said it received a complaint in June 2013 from a patient about a visit to the registrant in March the same year. The patient had been concerned about poor vision at night, inability to see facial features clearly and lights being too bright. Panesar was alleged to have told her that symptoms would improve with a new prescription. In April 2013, at a visit to another practice, the patient was diagnosed with cataracts.