An optometrist is to appear before a General Optical Council disciplinary committee early next month charged with serious professional misconduct.
Bournemouth-based practitioner Elliott David Bloom will face allegations that he breached section 17 (1) (b) of the 1989 Opticians Act. The basis of the charge is that Bloom's records of sight tests made on November 30 1999 and April 18 2000, were inadequate.
He is alleged to have supplied spectacles which were inappropriate in that they had an unusable amended inset of the bifocal segment on July 4, 2000.
It is also alleged that Bloom claimed on form GOS 3 to have supplied prism-controlled bifocals when the spectacles were not as described. He is additionally charged with failing to adequately test the sight of four patients on January 18 2001.
The hearing, originally scheduled for June 16 earlier this year, will take place on September 3.