Robert Frith warned over visual fields and record-keeping

The General Optical Council fitness to practise committee has issued a warning to optometrist Robert Frith of Robert Frith Optometrists after it found his professional performance ‘deficient’, but has ruled that his fitness to practise is not impaired.

The warning was announced yesterday after a two-day hearing into allegations firstly, that Frith did not undertake a visual field test on a patient between 1982 and 2004; secondly, that he did not record the patient’s family history of glaucoma on any records cards since the examination in 1982; thirdly, that he failed to keep adequate records for the patient; and that for these reasons his professional performance was deficient.