OO ordered to improve his record-keeping

The GOC fitness to practise committee has imposed conditions on a Llanelli optometrist's right to professional registration after complaints that his record-keeping had fallen below basic minimum requirements.

The panel had been told that the records kept by Oliver Wright Stevens of Stevens Opticians in Llanelli High Street were below standard over a four-year period.

He was said to have failed to record reasons for patient visits, their symptoms and clinical history in some cases and to have recorded insufficient details for pressure measurements and visual field testing.

Imposing conditions on his right to continued registration Sir Alistair Graham, chair of the disciplinary panel, said that as the complaints related solely to inadequate record-keeping suspension or erasure would be 'disproportionate'.