An inquiry into the fitness to practise of an optometrist who is alleged by the General Optical Council to have told a patient in pain she was too busy to see her will take place on December 8, 2010.
In a consultation on August 28 2008, Carla Jane Ramanah is alleged to have failed to exercise sufficient care to ensure that she used the appropriate contact lens solution prior to inserting a contact lens. The GOC said that after the patient had put the lens in her left eye, Ramanah did not personally irrigate the eye or adequately advise her how to irrigate the eye.
It is also alleged that Ramanah did not adequately examine the patient's eye, in that she didn't use fluorescein and did not detect gross corneal changes during the slit-lamp examination. During a telephone conversation later that day the patient informed Ramanah that she was still in pain and requested further advice, Ramanah is alleged not to have referred her to a medical practitioner and to have told the patient she was too busy to see her that afternoon.