GOC imposes supervision on OO

A fitness to practise committee of the General Optical Council has imposed a list of conditions on registered optometrist Janine Elizabeth Vali after finding her fitness to practise impaired.

Vali admitted on July 26, 2005 that she recorded intraocular pressure measurements of 28mmHg in the right eye and 17mmHg in the left eye of a patient, but did not repeat the recording either immediately or at a different time of day.

Vali also admitted failing to perform a visual field test or to make a referral of the patient to a medical practitioner concerning abnormal intraocular pressure measurements.

Finding Vali guilty of misconduct and deficient professional performance, the committee felt nothing indicated that the deficiencies in her practice and insight, especially in regard to glaucoma, had been remedied in four and half years.