Two optometrists are due to appear before the disciplinary committee of the General Optical Council next week facing separate charges of serious professional misconduct.
Two optometrists are due to appear before the disciplinary committee of the General Optical Council next week facing separate charges of serious professional misconduct.
Leicester-based Allan Shields is scheduled to appear on Thursday May 26. It is alleged that the optometrist did not perform contact tonometry during a patient's eye examination on June 23 2003. It is also claimed that Shields entered tonometry results on that patient's record card when this test had not been carried out.A second case, scheduled for the following day involves London optometrist Sam Silver. It is alleged that he issued a GOS3 voucher to different patients on 12 separate occasions between September 2001 and September 2002 in respect of whom he had 'established a prescription for each eye with no spherical element and a cylindrical element of -0.25 dioptres'.
Both cases will take place at the General Dental Council, a short distance from the GOC's Harley Street offices.