In Focus: Seven-minute eye test OO must work under special conditions

An optometrist with an average testing time across 48 patients of just seven-and-a-half minutes has been given a two-year conditional registration order by a General Optical Council fitness to practise committee.  

Ateeq Ashraf, who first registered with the GOC in 2015, worked at two unnamed city-centre branches of Specsavers. It was alleged that Ashraf, on four dates between July 20, 2019, and September 21, 2019, took insufficient time to perform eye examinations, with additional concerns over the quality and record keeping. The panel alleged notes were unrecorded, and the same test details were used across multiple patients.