Clinical and regulatory

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

The GOC has sanctioned a Manchester-based practitioner who removed black trousers and a cardigan from a store without paying for them

A Suffolk-based practitioner has received an erasure order from the General Optical Council following a collision that caused the death of his friend

A student who submitted fraudulent documents to gain a place on a BSc optometry course has been sanctioned by the General Optical Council

The General Optical Council has launched a four-month pilot of an enhanced triage process for fitness to practise investigations

The GOC has sanctioned Talha Daji after he repeatedly punched a female student and used derogatory homophobic language

A Surrey-based dispensing optician who tried to kiss his colleague and asked her to sit on his lap has been sanctioned by the General Optical Council

The General Optical Council has erased Swindon practitioner Simon Backhouse from its register