Dispensing optician removed from GOC register

Staffordshire-based dispensing optician Victoria Tyers has been erased from the GOC register.

A GOC fitness to practise committee found her fitness to practise impaired by virtue of a conviction for stealing cash to the value of £3,967 from her employer, Specsavers in Uttoxeter.

Committee chaired Margaret Hallendorff said: ‘The committee considered that the criminal conviction related to a serious offence of dishonesty. Over a prolonged period the registrant committed a number of acts of theft of cash, totalling almost four thousand pounds, from her employer whilst in a position of trust as store manager.'