A dispensing optician who recommended tinted lenses as a ‘treatment’ for patients with retinitis pigmentosa, brain injury and face blindness has received an order of erasure from the General Optical Council (GOC).

A GOC fitness to practise decision described how Ayr dispensing optician, Ian Jordan, worked at a practice that treated a “significant number” of children with developmental and learning difficulties.

Over a number of years Mr Jordan developed an interest in the provision of tinted lenses to patients, including those with behaviours characteristic of autism spectrum disorder.

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