The General Optical Council (GOC) has erased optometrist Paul Fontaine from its register.
A GOC Fitness to Practise Committee found the Lincolnshire based optometrist’s fitness to practise impaired by reason of misconduct due to his conduct towards a patient, an inadequate standard of care at a sight test and for record keeping failures.
Ian Crookall, who chaired the committee, said: ‘The Committee found that the lack of any remediation by the registrant and the absence of any adequate insight into his conduct means that he presents a high risk of repetition of such conduct to the detriment of patients. The Committee determined that an Order for Erasure was the only appropriate and proportionate sanction that would sufficiently protect the public and demonstrate to the public that the regulator took seriously the concerns that arose in this case given the serious departure from professional standards.’