Health and Care Professions Council determination — review hearing
HCPTS panel extends Alice Langley's suspension over competence failings
An HCPTS panel extended speech and language therapist Alice Langley's suspension for 12 months after finding no evidence of remediation and a continuing risk of repetition.
MedicWatch editorial · Published 16 September 2024 · Updated 23 September 2026
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Concerning Alice Langley, speech and language therapist (Health and Care Professions Council SL27744).
Decision date: 16 September 2024 · Hearing started 16 September 2024
In plain English
The HCPTS panel found that Alice Langley's fitness to practise remained impaired because she had not shown remediation for wide-ranging competence failings and a risk of repetition remained. It said conditions were not practical because she did not intend to return to speech and language therapy. The panel extended her suspension for a further 12 months.
Charges
The substantive allegation concerned wide-ranging failures by Alice Langley between June 2015 and June 2016 to complete reports, records, case notes, reviews, follow-ups, discharges and treatment plans, and to document clinical reasoning. The final-hearing panel found those deficiencies amounted to lack of competence and impaired her fitness to practise.
Findings
The review panel found that Alice Langley had provided no evidence of remediation and that her case had not moved on factually since the final hearing. It found a continuing risk of repetition and impairment on personal and public grounds. As she did not intend to return to practice, conditions were not practicable, so it extended her suspension for 12 months.
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