Clinical and regulatory

A Scarborough-based practitioner has been sanctioned by the optical regulator for taking cash from the till and processing false refunds

A London-based optometrist tested the vision of more than 600 children through a ‘screening programme’ that was not approved by the NHS

A GOC fitness to practise committee has released its decision on the facts of the case following closing arguments from advocates on each side

A traffic light system for eye care, Black Lives Matter and optics, common complaints, and temporary plans to adapt the Scheme for Registration

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

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