This document contains guidance to be used by the GOC’s case examiners when considering complaints about a GOC registrant’s fitness to practise, fitness to undertake training or fitness to carry on an optical business. The guidance is intended to encourage consistent decision-making by the case examiners.
The General Optical Council (GOC), the UK regulator for optometrists and dispensing opticians, has decided to suspend Elizabeth Williams, an optometrist based in Wrexham, from its register for twelve months.