OO fails with second bid for reinstatement

At a GOC disciplinary committee hearing he told the panel that he had been keeping up to date by working at the Croydon Optical Centre, as well as attending further education courses.
In late 2000 Parti was erased from the register when found guilty of professional misconduct through failing to carry out adequate sight tests and failing to keep adequate patient records.
Health investigators became suspicious of a large number of claims while he was in charge of Mobile Opticians in Islington, which was also known as Islington Contact Lens Centre.
At his original hearing (News, November 24, 2000) it was alleged that Parti carried out between 40 and 70 eye tests a day during his work as a self-employed locum in residential homes and day centres in London and Middlesex from pre-booked appointments.
However, when he arrived at the homes the staff would ask him to see additional residents and he found he could not turn the work away.
At his original hearing three years ago his record-keeping was found to be inadequate.
Last week Parti, 34, told the hearing that he now appreciated the importance of good record- keeping, and that he should have limited his testing and scheduled patients for another day.
He was a completely rejuvenated individual rather than a over-enthusiastic young practitioner, he claimed.
Rejecting his second application, committee chairman Geraldine Huka said: 'The committee are not satisfied that your rehabilitation is sufficiently advanced in relation to the issues for which your name was erased.'North London-based optometrist Ashim Parti failed in his second bid to be reinstated to the Opticians Register last week.
At a GOC disciplinary committee hearing he told the panel that he had been keeping up to date by working at the Croydon Optical Centre, as well as attending further education courses.
In late 2000 Parti was erased from the register when found guilty of professional misconduct through failing to carry out adequate sight tests and failing to keep adequate patient records.
Health investigators became suspicious of a large number of claims while he was in charge of Mobile Opticians in Islington, which was also known as Islington Contact Lens Centre.
At his original hearing (News, November 24, 2000) it was alleged that Parti carried out between 40 and 70 eye tests a day during his work as a self-employed locum in residential homes and day centres in London and Middlesex from pre-booked appointments.
However, when he arrived at the homes the staff would ask him to see additional residents and he found he could not turn the work away.
At his original hearing three years ago his record-keeping was found to be inadequate.
Last week Parti, 34, told the hearing that he now appreciated the importance of good record- keeping, and that he should have limited his testing and scheduled patients for another day.
He was a completely rejuvenated individual rather than a over-enthusiastic young practitioner, he claimed.
Rejecting his second application, committee chairman Geraldine Huka said: 'The committee are not satisfied that your rehabilitation is sufficiently advanced in relation to the issues for which your name was erased.'