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DO hearing adjourned

A fitness to practise hearing for a dispensing optometrist who allegedly fitted 14 patients with contact lenses while not qualified has been adjourned until April because a witness due to give evidence was not available to attend.

A fitness to practise hearing for a dispensing optometrist who allegedly fitted 14 patients with contact lenses while not qualified has been adjourned until April because a witness due to give evidence was not available to attend.

The panel at the London hearing last Thursday heard that David Agyeman, working in the Minworth, Sutton Coldfield branch of Asda, carried out 75 consultations on various dates in just under two months and fitted the lenses.

It emerged that on September 6 2005, when the question of his qualification status was raised, Agyeman who was hired through an agency left.

Nevertheless the hearing was told that a 'dialogue' had begun between him and Asda over his position.

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