Disciplinary panel orders optometrist to improve

A Tenby optometrist has been warned by the GOC's fitness to practise panel that he needs to improve following disciplinary proceeding held in London last week.

Although cleared of the allegation that his fitness to practise was impaired, John Edward Stevenson, was told by the disciplinary panel chair, Mercy Jeyasingham, that the panel expected to achieve "improvements" in his performance in the future.

The hearing had been told about a number of "inadequacies" in his examination of a female patient on September 18 2006 relating to the fitting of contact lenses, were found during an assessment of this work.

Stevenson was cleared of allegations of failing to perform an examination of the patient's anterior segment and of not providing suitable contact lenses, but was found guilty of not performing a slit lamp examination.