Clinical and regulatory

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

The latest meeting of the General Optical Council heard how progress is being made on reducing the optical regulator’s fitness to practise backlog

Lidl has stopped stocking multifocal reading glasses in UK stores after the supermarket chain was contacted by the General Optical Council

A Manchester-based student is no longer able to train as a dispensing optician after the General Optical Council erased her from its register

Barry Church did not appeal the fitness to practise committee’s decision

A Hertfordshire-based practitioner has been suspended for nine months after she claimed to have carried out a dilated fundus examination and wrongly amended records

A Harrow-based student can no longer undertake training to become an optometrist after she made false representations on a university application

Nimesh Patel has been given a 12-month suspension from the GOC register