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The most recent publicly published decisions of UK healthcare regulators, across all professions. Each entry links to the source determination on the regulator's site.
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Health and Care Professions CouncilParamedic
Suspension(suspended from practice)
The HCPTS panel extended paramedic James Hughes's suspension for four months. He had made progress in understanding his dishonesty, but had not supplied enough evidence of remediation, current professional learning or how he would safely return after three years away from paramedic work. The panel found his fitness to practise remained impaired.
Health and Care Professions CouncilParamedic
Suspension(suspended from practice)
The HCPTS review panel found that paramedic Matthew Lee Taylor remained impaired after proven clinical, prescribing and communication failings. With no evidence of remediation and a clear repetition risk, it extended his suspension for 12 months from 2 July 2024.
Health and Care Professions CouncilParamedic
Erasure(struck off the register)
The HCPTS panel found that paramedic Scott O'Sullivan had non-consensual sexual intercourse with Person A in 2007 and that the conduct was sexually motivated. Although it found the repetition risk extremely low, it found public-interest impairment and struck him off; it refused an interim order.
General Pharmaceutical CouncilPharmacist
Suspension(suspended from practice)
The GPhC committee decided that Nura Ali Baroot should be subject to the published outcome from a principal hearing in a misconduct case. The committee imposed a suspension for 3 months. It records fitness to practise as impaired. The official determination gives the committee's reasons, order wording, and any conditions attached to the decision.
Health and Care Professions CouncilSpeech and language therapist
Conditions on practice(practising with restrictions)
The HCPTS panel found that speech and language therapist Sandra Marshall remained impaired after taking no steps to address wide-ranging clinical shortcomings while under an 18-month conditions order. It found a high risk that the failings would be repeated, but considered supervised practice could support remediation, and extended the conditions for a further 18 months.
General Pharmaceutical CouncilPharmacist
Suspension(suspended from practice)
The GPhC committee decided that Mirza Ata Ul Wodoud Baig should be subject to the published outcome from a review hearing in a health case. The committee imposed a suspension for 12 months. It records fitness to practise as impaired. The official determination gives the committee's reasons, order wording, and any conditions attached to the decision.
General Pharmaceutical CouncilPharmacist
Interim order imposed(interim restrictions imposed)
The GPhC committee decided that Gideon Ashie Kotey should be subject to the published outcome from an interim order review. The committee continued an interim suspension. The official determination gives the committee's reasons, order wording, and any conditions attached to the decision.
General Pharmaceutical CouncilPharmacist
Interim order imposed(interim restrictions imposed)
The GPhC committee decided that John Obiri-Yeboah should be subject to the published outcome from an interim order review. The committee continued interim conditions. The official determination gives the committee's reasons, order wording, and any conditions attached to the decision.
Dental Professionals Hearings ServiceDentist
Erasure(struck off the register)
The GDC committee published a Professional Conduct Committee decision for Timothy Edwin Lloyd. It directed erasure from the dental register. The public outcome summary states: On 4 June 2024 the Professional Conduct Committee made an order to erase Mr Lloyd from the register and ordered that their registration be suspended immediately. The official DPHS page links to the full determination PDF for the committee's reasons.
General Pharmaceutical CouncilPharmacist
Interim order imposed(interim restrictions imposed)
The GPhC committee decided that Khalid Mahmood Ahmed should be subject to the published outcome from an interim order review. The committee continued an interim suspension. The official determination gives the committee's reasons, order wording, and any conditions attached to the decision.
General Pharmaceutical CouncilPharmacist
Suspension(suspended from practice)
The GPhC committee decided that Goncalo de Melo Rodrigues should be subject to the published outcome from an interim order application. The committee imposed a suspension for 18 months. The official determination gives the committee's reasons, order wording, and any conditions attached to the decision.
General Pharmaceutical CouncilPharmacy technician
Erasure(struck off the register)
The GPhC committee decided that Jennie Dawn Collins should be subject to the published outcome from a principal hearing in a misconduct case. The committee directed removal from the register. It records fitness to practise as impaired. The official determination gives the committee's reasons, order wording, and any conditions attached to the decision.
General Pharmaceutical CouncilPharmacist
Erasure(struck off the register)
The GPhC committee decided that Ramesh Chuthraj should be subject to the published outcome from a principal hearing in a conviction case. The committee directed removal from the register. It records fitness to practise as impaired. The official determination gives the committee's reasons, order wording, and any conditions attached to the decision.
General Pharmaceutical CouncilPharmacist
Suspension(suspended from practice)
The GPhC committee decided that Alison Lesley Cooper should be subject to the published outcome from a principal hearing in a misconduct case. The committee imposed a suspension for 12 months. It records fitness to practise as impaired. The official determination gives the committee's reasons, order wording, and any conditions attached to the decision.
General Pharmaceutical CouncilPharmacist
Suspension(suspended from practice)
The GPhC committee decided that Rita Gold Ihenagwa should be subject to the published outcome from a principal hearing in a misconduct case. The committee imposed a suspension for 6 months. It records fitness to practise as impaired. The official determination gives the committee's reasons, order wording, and any conditions attached to the decision.
General Pharmaceutical CouncilPharmacist
Interim order imposed(interim restrictions imposed)
The GPhC committee decided that Rizwan Akhtar should be subject to the published outcome from an interim order review. The committee continued an interim suspension. The official determination gives the committee's reasons, order wording, and any conditions attached to the decision.
General Pharmaceutical CouncilPharmacist
Erasure(struck off the register)
The GPhC committee directed Muhammad Qasim Ali Manzoor's removal from the pharmacists' register in May 2024. It found that he supplied medicines to another pharmacist knowing they were very likely to be abused. The committee found serious misconduct and impaired fitness to practise, with limited insight and no demonstrated remediation. It also imposed interim suspension pending removal taking effect.
Health and Care Professions CouncilOccupational therapist
Suspension(suspended from practice)
The HCPTS panel found that occupational therapist Maria Efthymiou remained impaired after earlier findings about inadequate patient assessment and record-keeping. It found that her insight was not fully developed, she had not remedied the failings and there was a high risk of repetition. The panel imposed a further 12-month suspension to allow more reflection and remediation.
Health and Care Professions CouncilPhysiotherapist
Erasure(struck off the register)
The HCPTS panel found that Markus Matkovits committed misconduct through serious patient-care and record-keeping failings. It found his fitness to practise impaired on personal and public grounds, citing very limited insight and a significant risk of repetition. The panel did not prove the alternative dishonesty particulars. It decided no lesser sanction would protect the public and struck him off.
Health and Care Professions CouncilRadiographer
Erasure(struck off the register)
The HCPTS panel found that radiographer Steven P Lowe made racially motivated and otherwise unprofessional comments to colleagues and communicated in an intimidating manner. It found misconduct, current impairment, incomplete insight and a significant risk of repetition. The panel ordered him struck from the register and imposed an interim suspension for the appeal period.
General Pharmaceutical CouncilPharmacist
Interim order imposed(interim restrictions imposed)
The GPhC committee decided that Yiu Cho Chung should be subject to the published outcome from an interim order application. The committee imposed an interim suspension for 18 months. The official determination gives the committee's reasons, order wording, and any conditions attached to the decision.
Health and Care Professions CouncilPhysiotherapist
Suspension(suspended from practice)
The HCPTS panel suspended physiotherapist John A Green for three months for repeatedly and dishonestly billing AXA Health for sessions on dates when treatment did not occur. He repaid the money, showed considerable insight and remediation, and was considered very unlikely to repeat the misconduct. The short suspension marked the seriousness of financial dishonesty and protected public confidence.
General Pharmaceutical CouncilPharmacist
Erasure(struck off the register)
The GPhC committee directed Russell Buglass's removal from the pharmacists' register on 9 May 2024 following convictions involving indecent images of children and other prohibited sexual images. It found impaired fitness to practise, limited insight and insufficient evidence of remediation. Although it recognised cooperation with the police and early guilty pleas, it concluded that lesser sanctions were insufficient and imposed an interim suspension pending removal taking effect.
Health and Care Professions CouncilParamedic
Voluntary erasure accepted(voluntary removal from the register)
The HCPTS panel decided that Jayne M Denton could leave the Register under a voluntary removal agreement after she accepted that her fitness to practise was impaired by clinical competence failings. It found that removal would protect the public and preserve the published findings and regulatory history. The panel revoked her suspension and approved the agreement, which has the same effect as striking off.
Health and Care Professions CouncilParamedic
Suspension(suspended from practice)
The HCPTS panel decided that Matthew Lee Taylor's suspension should be extended for two months because he had not received the 28 days' notice required for a full review. It said the shorter notice created potential unfairness, while the existing order was due to expire. The extension allows a properly notified panel to review the order before 2 July 2024.
Health and Care Professions CouncilChiropodist / podiatrist
Erasure(struck off the register)
The HCPTS panel struck podiatrist Ryan B Norman off the register following convictions involving extreme pornography and indecent images of children over more than eight years. It found very limited insight, no remorse or remediation and a real risk of repetition. The panel concluded that only removal could protect public confidence and imposed an interim suspension.
General Pharmaceutical CouncilPharmacist
Interim order imposed(interim restrictions imposed)
The GPhC committee decided that Amit Vinod Unadkat should be subject to the published outcome from an interim order review. The committee continued an interim suspension. The official determination gives the committee's reasons, order wording, and any conditions attached to the decision.
Health and Care Professions CouncilOccupational therapist
Conditions on practice(practising with restrictions)
The HCPTS panel found that Umalini Kathirgamanathan still had practice concerns involving communication, record keeping and clinical assessments. It said those concerns remained capable of remedy and that conditions were the proportionate way to protect the public while supporting her development. The panel varied and extended her conditions of practice for 12 months, including further communication and record-keeping training.
General Pharmaceutical CouncilPharmacist
Interim order imposed(interim restrictions imposed)
The GPhC committee decided that Deenadayalan Krishna Naidu should be subject to the published outcome from an interim order review. The committee continued interim conditions. The official determination gives the committee's reasons, order wording, and any conditions attached to the decision.
General Pharmaceutical CouncilPharmacist
Interim order imposed(interim restrictions imposed)
The GPhC committee decided that Muhammad Shuayb Malook should be subject to the published outcome from an interim order review. The committee continued an interim suspension. The official determination gives the committee's reasons, order wording, and any conditions attached to the decision.
General Pharmaceutical CouncilPharmacist
Suspension(suspended from practice)
The GPhC committee decided that Ismail Essop Nagdi should be subject to the published outcome from a principal hearing in a conviction case. The committee imposed a suspension for 3 months. It records fitness to practise as impaired. The official determination gives the committee's reasons, order wording, and any conditions attached to the decision.
Health and Care Professions CouncilBiomedical scientist
Erasure(struck off the register)
The HCPTS panel struck biomedical scientist Benart Berisha off after finding that he violently threw a colleague to the laboratory floor, held him in a headlock and threatened colleagues. He showed no meaningful insight or remediation. The continuing violence risk threatened staff safety and disrupted laboratory services, making a lesser sanction insufficient.
General Pharmaceutical CouncilPharmacist
Erasure(struck off the register)
The GPhC committee decided that Sanjay Shah should be subject to the published outcome from a principal hearing in a conviction/inclusion in a barred list case. The committee directed removal from the register. It records fitness to practise as impaired. The official determination gives the committee's reasons, order wording, and any conditions attached to the decision.
Health and Care Professions CouncilBiomedical scientist
Erasure(struck off the register)
The HCPTS panel struck biomedical scientist Simon A Lockyear off after more than three years of suspension for serious laboratory reporting failures. He had not engaged since February 2022 or provided evidence of remediation, health management or current competence. The panel concluded that conditions would not protect the public and further suspension would serve no purpose.
General Pharmaceutical CouncilPharmacist
Erasure(struck off the register)
The GPhC committee decided that Emma Louise Mason should be subject to the published outcome from a principal hearing in a conviction case. The committee directed removal from the register. It records fitness to practise as impaired. The official determination gives the committee's reasons, order wording, and any conditions attached to the decision.
General Pharmaceutical CouncilPharmacist
Interim order imposed(interim restrictions imposed)
The GPhC committee decided that Raliat Omoyeni Dabiri should be subject to the published outcome from an interim order application. The committee imposed an interim suspension for 18 months. The official determination gives the committee's reasons, order wording, and any conditions attached to the decision.
Health and Care Professions CouncilOperating department practitioner
Suspension(suspended from practice)
The HCPTS panel found that operating department practitioner Emma Jones inhaled and misused anaesthetic gases at work on two occasions. It found misconduct and current impairment, noting limited insight, a risk of repetition and her eventual admission after earlier denials. The panel suspended her registration for 12 months and imposed an interim suspension for the appeal period.
Health and Care Professions CouncilOperating department practitioner
Voluntary erasure accepted(voluntary removal from the register)
The HCPTS Health Committee approved operating department practitioner David J Riches's voluntary removal agreement. The case concerned an allegation of health-related impairment, but the condition was redacted and the hearing was held entirely in private. The panel approved the consent order and withdrawal notice concluding the proceedings.
Health and Care Professions CouncilOperating department practitioner
Conditions on practice(practising with restrictions)
The HCPTS panel's review decision concerning operating department practitioner Ihab Y A Sharf was quashed after a Professional Standards Authority appeal. The High Court imposed four months of conditions requiring a reflective piece, workplace monitoring of behaviour and policy compliance, and disclosure of the restrictions to employers and agencies.
Health and Care Professions CouncilOperating department practitioner
Erasure(struck off the register)
The HCPTS review panel found that operating department practitioner Susan Glaiser remained impaired after drug-related convictions and dishonest delayed disclosure to the HCPC. Although her substance use had been remediated, she had not engaged or addressed the misconduct, so the panel struck her off from 5 April 2024.
Dental Professionals Hearings ServiceDentist
Indefinite suspension(suspended indefinitely)
The GDC committee published a Health Committee decision for Alison Mary Bowden. It confirmed an indefinite suspension. The public outcome summary states: At a review hearing on 28 March 2024 the Health Committee suspended Ms Bowden's registration indefinitely. Please note that Ms Bowden is subject to 2 sanctions from 2 separate cases. The official DPHS page links to the full determination PDF for the committee's reasons.
General Pharmaceutical CouncilPharmacist
Erasure(struck off the register)
The GPhC committee decided that Bhavin Kantilal Shah should be subject to the published outcome from a principal hearing in a misconduct case. The committee directed removal from the register. It records fitness to practise as impaired. The official determination gives the committee's reasons, order wording, and any conditions attached to the decision.
General Pharmaceutical CouncilPharmacist
Interim order confirmed(existing interim order confirmed)
The GPhC committee decided that Shyam Morjaria's existing interim suspension should continue, with a further review. The published notice records a twelve-month extension previously made by the High Court on 2 January 2024; this review did not set a fresh twelve-month term. It does not publish allegations or substantive findings. This historical interim decision does not establish his current registration status.
Health and Care Professions CouncilOccupational therapist
Conditions on practice(practising with restrictions)
The HCPTS panel found that Sarah Neita's fitness to practise remained impaired because she had not shown sufficient insight or remediation and risks of repetition and harm remained. It said her failings were still capable of remedy and decided suspension would be disproportionate. The panel varied and extended the occupational therapist's conditions of practice for a further 12 months.
General Pharmaceutical CouncilPharmacist
Suspension(suspended from practice)
The GPhC committee suspended Mohammed Amier for twelve months in March 2024 after finding repeated dishonesty in obtaining medicines for wholesaling. It found serious misconduct and impaired fitness to practise, but rejected one allegation of dishonesty about regulatory approval of an agent. Recognising remorse and positive clinical references, it chose suspension with review rather than removal. No actual patient harm was found.
Health and Care Professions CouncilPractitioner psychologist
Conditions on practice(practising with restrictions)
The HCPTS panel replaced practitioner psychologist Sarah Sikpa's suspension with 18 months of conditions after finding that her insight had improved but was not yet complete. She must work under supervision, follow a development plan and undergo regular record-keeping audits before demonstrating that her learning is embedded in safe practice.
Health and Care Professions CouncilParamedic
Warning(formally warned)
The HCPTS panel imposed a two-year caution order on paramedic Francis Mwangi after finding serious failures in assessing, documenting and treating a patient with severe abdominal pain. Dishonesty was not proved. The incident was isolated and the risk of repetition was low, but the panel found a public-interest impairment because the failings exposed the patient to potential harm.
Health and Care Professions CouncilOperating department practitioner
Erasure(struck off the register)
The HCPTS panel found that Dawn Earp repeatedly forged and altered prescriptions to obtain medication that had not been prescribed. It found her conduct dishonest, with no genuine insight or remediation and a high risk of repetition. The panel said the conduct was fundamentally incompatible with registration and struck the operating department practitioner off the Register.
General Pharmaceutical CouncilPharmacist
Suspension(suspended from practice)
The GPhC committee decided that Rebin Abdullah should be subject to the published outcome from a review hearing in a misconduct case. The committee imposed a suspension for 9 months. It records fitness to practise as impaired. The official determination gives the committee's reasons, order wording, and any conditions attached to the decision.
Health and Care Professions CouncilArts therapist
Erasure(struck off the register)
The HCPTS panel approved a consent order striking arts therapist Rose Thorn off the register after allegations that she entered a romantic relationship with a service user and committed sexualised boundary breaches. It also imposed an interim suspension for the appeal period because the allegations were serious and there was no evidence of remediation.