OO used husband's GOC number

An optometrist has been erased from the GOC register amid a 'history of repetitive dishonest misconduct' including a fraud offence two years ago.

Sabeen Khan's fitness to practise was ruled to be impaired after she admitted a series of GOC allegations, which included using her husband's registration number in June 2009.

Khan acted in the full knowledge she was at that time unregistered and that there were unresolved issues relating to her indemnity insurance, according to a GOC fitness to practise committee.

Khan received a 12-month conditional caution for an offence of fraud by false representation in May 2010, the hearing heard. She also admitted failing to declare a conviction and caution for theft in 2001 on two PCT and three GOC applications in later years.