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.