Robin D Gordon

Profession: Hearing aid dispenser

Registration Number: HAD02699

Hearing Type: Final Hearing

Date and Time of hearing: 10:00 10/10/2022 End: 17:00 19/10/2022

Location: Virtually via videoconference

Panel: Conduct and Competence Committee
Outcome: Adjourned part heard

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Allegation

As a registered Hearing Aid Dispenser (HAD02699) your fitness to practise is impaired by reason of misconduct and/or lack of competence. In that:

1.During your employment with Veritas Hearing between 15 January 2018 and 30 January 2019, you:

a.Met with the company’s customers away from the company’s premises under false pretence and/or during your unauthorised absence from the company;

b.did not adequately record payments charged to patients and/or did not convey payments received from patients to Veritas Hearing, with respect to the patients as set out in Schedule A;

c.Deleted calendar entries from Veritas Hearing’s calendar and/or did not reinstate them;

d.Exported Veritas Hearing customer data on 08 January 2019 without authorisation;
 
e.Did not adequately return and/or account for missing Veritas Hearing items following your resignation from Veritas Hearing on 02 January 2019.

f.Did not adequately carry out diagnostic testing and/or record your clinical reasoning for not doing so and/or update patient notes following consultations, with   respect to patients as set out in Schedule B;

2.Your conduct in relation to 1 (a) to (e) above was dishonest.

3.The matter set out in allegations 1(f) constitutes lack of competence.

4.The matter set out in allegations 1 and 2 above constitute misconduct.

5.By reason of your misconduct and/or lack of competence your fitness to practice is impaired.

Schedule A
(i)Patient 1
(ii)Patient 3
(iii)Patient 4
(iv)Patient 5
(v)Patient 6
(vi)Patient 11
(vii)Patient 12
(viii)Patient 14
(ix)Patient 15
(x)Patient 16
(xi)Patient 17
(xii)Patient 18
(xiii)Patient 19
(xiv)Patient 20
(xv)Patient 21
(xvi)Patient 22
(xvii)Patient 24
(xviii)Patient 25
(xix)Patient 26
(xx)Patient 37
(xxi)Patient 38
(xxii)Patient 39

Schedule B
(i)Patient 2
(ii)Patient 3
(iii)Patient 4
(iv)Patient 5
(v)Patient 6
(vi)Patient 7
(vii)Patient 8
(viii)Patient 9
(ix)Patient 10
(x)Patient 11
(xi)Patient 12
(xii)Patient 13
(xiii)Patient 14
(xiv)Patient 15
(xv)Patient 16
(xvi)Patient 37
(xvii)Patient 39
(xviii)Patient 40


Finding

No information currently available

Order

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Notes

This hearing adjourned, part heard. The reconvened hearing will take place on 17-20 January 2023 and 15-17 March 2023.

Hearing History

History of Hearings for Robin D Gordon

Date Panel Hearing type Outcomes / Status
10/10/2022 Conduct and Competence Committee Final Hearing Adjourned part heard
06/07/2021 Conduct and Competence Committee Final Hearing Adjourned
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