GOC suspends optometrist for three months

The General Optical Council (GOC) has decided to suspend a Luton-based optometrist from the register for three months.

The GOC Fitness to Practise committee found Kabeer Hussain’s fitness to practise to be impaired by reason of misconduct, due to an amendment made to a patient’s records following a sight test.

The committee, chaired by Anne Johnstone, said: ‘The committee was satisfied that, albeit that the registrant’s alteration of Patient A’s records could be viewed as a single act or omission, the nature and consequences of the registrant’s acts or omissions fell far below the standards to be expected of a registered optometrist and were sufficiently grave to amount to misconduct.’