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GOC erases Harrow based student optometrist
The General Optical Council (GOC), the UK regulator for optometrists and dispensing opticians, has decided to erase Deepa Acharya, a student optometrist based in Harrow, from its register. She will now be unable to undertake training as a student optometrist in the UK.
A GOC Fitness to Practise Committee found her fitness to train impaired by reason of misconduct related to lying about her A level and first year university results on a university application.
Ms Acharya has until 7 January 2020 to appeal her erasure.
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NOTES TO EDITORS:
- See the full determination on our Past Hearings page
- A full transcript of the hearing is available on request and payment of an administration charge.
- A briefing on how the FTP process works is available at: https://www.optical.org/en/news_publications/press_kit/media-statements-and-briefings/index.cfm
- The registrant’s date of most recent registration with the GOC as a student optometrist was 14 July 2017. Her GOC registration number is SO-11704. Her last registered contact address was in Harrow, England.