Clinical and regulatory

Optometrist Honey Rose will appear before the General Optical Council in July

The GOC has sanctioned a practitioner who submitted a false signature and attempted to influence a fitness to practise witness

Student dispensing opticians, Taseer and Shamir Kazi, have been erased from the GOC register after they were jailed for grievous bodily harm

The GOC has erased a practitioner who made an indecent photograph of a child and possessed extreme pornographic images of animals

A Hampshire-based optometrist has been suspended after he did not make the GOC aware of a streaking incident more than two decades ago

The fee remains unchanged for a fifth consecutive year

Optometrists must use their professional judgement to decide whether a sight test or contact lens fit is necessary in order to supply spectacles or contact lenses

The multinational technology company removed several listings of adjustable focus spectacles following contact by the General Optical Council

Regulator highlights optometrists may need to use CE-marked lissamine green within their practice in line with a patient’s best interests

A joint regulatory statement signed by the GOC states that professionals may have concerns about how to care for patients in challenging circumstances