Optometrist Anthony Plimmer erased from GOC register

Hertfordshire-based optometrist Anthony Plimmer has been erased from the GOC register.

The GOC committee found Plimmer’s fitness to practice was impaired by virtue of multiple failures in patient care and record keeping.

Plimmer had been under conditional GOC registration for nearly four years, but the committee found he had not remediated his deficiencies and there was a risk of repetition in the future.

He was first suspended in 2009 from a Vision Express store in Milton Keynes following a failure to refer a patient to the Hospital Eye Service for glaucoma.

Following an audit conducted by Vision Express, it was found Plimmer had failed to keep up to date with records as well as several instances of inadequate patient care, and was therefore put under conditional GOC registration.