HCPC determination — substantive hearing
Erasure (struck off the register)
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Being struck off (the regulator calls this "erasure") removes the practitioner from the register. They are no longer permitted to practise this profession in the UK. Erasure can be reviewed after a minimum of five years, but is otherwise indefinite.
Concerning Dermot Hynan, chiropodist podiatrist (HCPC CH30971).
Decision date: 11 December 2025 · Hearing started 8 December 2025 and ended 11 December 2025
In plain English
The HCPTS panel decided that Dermot Hynan should be subject to the published outcome from a final hearing. The panel directed removal from the HCPC Register. The public page records the profession, registration number, allegation, finding, order, notes and hearing history for source verification.
Charges
The HCPTS allegation section states: and the facts found proved, would public confidence in the profession and how it is regulated be undermined if there were to be no finding of impairment? 121. Based on its findings in relation to the unwarranted risk of harm, the bringing the profession into disrepute, the breaching of the fundamental tenets of the profession, and the dishonesty, the Panel concluded that public confidence would be undermined if there were to be no finding of impairment. The Panel considered that not to make a finding of current impairment of fitness to practise in relation to the misconduct and lack of competence would seriously undermine public trust and confidence in the profession and would fail to uphold and declare proper standards. 122. The Panel therefore decided on the public component of impairment that the Registrant’s fitness to practise is currently impaired. Decision on Sanction Submissions 123. Ms Danti referred the Panel to the HCPC Sanctions Policy (“the Policy”) (2019). She submitted that the HCPC remain neutral on sanction. 124. Ms Danti submitted that there are no mitigating factors in this case. 125. In relation to aggravating factors Ms Danti drew the Panel to its decision to date wherein it has found: • A breach of trust as the Registrant had abused his professional position and failed his patients who have placed their trust in him as a registered professional. • Repetition in relation to the sexual and dishonest conduct show that the Registrant had conducted a pattern of behaviour, across a period of time, against multiple female patients. • Lack of insight in that the Registrant’s evidence provided to support the admissions was superficial and that the Registrant’s response does not engage with the full weight of what was alleged against him and which he...
Findings
The HCPTS page records a final hearing for Dermot Hynan by the Conduct and Competence Committee. The panel directed removal from the HCPC Register. The allegation section states: and the facts found proved, would public confidence in the profession and how it is regulated be undermined if there were to be no finding of impairment? 121. Based on its findings in relation to the unwarranted risk of.... The order section states: comes into effect..
Source
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