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.
The committee found two of the GOC applications Khan made as a student optometrist in 2005 and 2006 were completed carelessly rather than dishonestly, but said the other allegations were caused by dishonest behaviour.
'The committee has concluded that erasure is the proportionate sanction in this case to reflect the seriousness and persistence of the registrant's departures from the relevant professional standards as set out in the code of conduct for registrants,' it added.
The decision revoked an interim order for suspension already in place, but the GOC said Khan remained suspended for 28 days pending any appeal.
