GOC suspends Barnet based dispensing optician from register 

GOC suspends Barnet based dispensing optician from register

The General Optical Council (GOC), the UK regulator for optometrists and dispensing opticians, has decided to suspend Gurmit Bansal, a dispensing optician based in Barnet, from its register for twelve months.

A GOC Fitness to Practise Committee found his fitness to practise impaired by reason of misconduct. This is in relation to suppling patients with cheaper and/or inferior quality spectacles to those originally paid for and not refunding the patients with the difference in price.

Mr Bansal has until 25 March to appeal against his suspension.