GOC suspends Nasir Butt

Nasir Butt, an optometrist based in Manchester, has been suspended from the GOC register for a period of 12 months.

His fitness to practise was found to be impaired by reason of misconduct relating to ‘dishonestly falsifying a patient’s record, failing to carry out an appropriate examination and failing to record a number of matters in the clinical notes’.

Committee chair Rachel O’Connell, said: ‘The dishonesty in this case is particularly serious. To falsify a clinical record is a matter of the utmost gravity. The committee has concluded that the registrant’s fitness to practise is currently impaired on public interest grounds as well as on grounds of public protection.’