15188 – Mr L Collins v South Gloucestershire PCT – Appeal Against the Refusal to Include on the Performers list
| Judgement Number | 15188 |
| Court | First-tier Tribunal (Health, Education and Social Care Chamber) |
IN THE FAMILY HEALTH SERVICES APPEAL AUTHORITY
Case No: 15188
Panel
Mrs D Shaw - Chairman
Mr D Styles - Professional Member
Mrs M Harley - Member
BETWEEN
Mr LLOYD COLLINS
GOC NO: 01-23901
Appellant
and
SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE PRIMARY CARE TRUST
Respondent
DECISION WITH REASONS
The Appeal
1. This is an appeal by Mr Lloyd Collins (“the Appellant”) against the refusal of
South Gloucestershire Primary Care Trust (“the PCT”) to include him on its
Performers List under section 6(1)(a) of the National Health Service
(Performers Lists) Regulations 2004 (as amended) and associated
regulations (“the Regulations”) on the grounds that he has two separate
offences, apparently close together in time and the subsequent GOC
investigations undertaken and the findings related to convictions imposed
resulted in GOC conditions being imposed.
History
2. The Appellant graduated as an optometrist from Cardiff University in 2006,
following which he began his pre-registration year at a Specsavers practice
in Bodmin, Cornwall. He stayed there from September 2006 to September
2007, but for various reasons found this post unsuitable and moved to
Plymouth Specsavers in October 2007 as a pre-registration student and
subsequently qualified in March 2008 when he registered with the GOC.
3. The Appellant has submitted that he had used drugs previously on a
recreational basis but only when going to a dance event, party,
occasionally at home or perhaps on camping holidays and that he had
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