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.
In making the decision, the committee chair said: ‘Four years have now elapsed since the original conditional registration was imposed, and the Registrant has not, in that time, demonstrated remediation. The Committee concluded that there was no other way both to protect the public and to meet the wider public interest, than to impose an order for erasure from the Register.’
Plimmer had been on the GOC register since November 1974 and his current conditional registration will expire in January 2017.