Health and Care Professions Council determination — substantive hearing
Physiotherapist struck off after concealing convictions
An HCPC panel removed Shiv Kumar Bhimasani from the register after finding prolonged dishonesty over assault and driving convictions.
MedicWatch editorial · Published 15 March 2024 · Updated 23 September 2026
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Concerning Shiv Bhimasani, physiotherapist (Health and Care Professions Council PH71833).
Decision date: 15 March 2024 · Hearing started 11 March 2024 and ended 15 March 2024
In plain English
The HCPC panel found that Shiv Kumar Bhimasani had concealed criminal convictions through repeated dishonest declarations over many years. It concluded that he remained impaired, posed an ongoing risk, and should be removed from the register.
Charges
The case concerned convictions for assault by beating and three road traffic offences, repeated failures to disclose those convictions to the regulator, false good-character declarations during registration renewals, and related dishonesty. An allegation of accessing service-user records without clinical justification was not proved.
Findings
The panel found the convictions proved and found serious misconduct in the registrant's repeated, prolonged and dishonest failure to disclose them. It found current impairment on both personal and public-interest grounds, with no evidence of insight, remorse or remediation and a real risk of repetition.
Mitigating and aggravating factors
Mitigating factors
The Panel determined that there were no mitigating factors which it could have regard to in this case.
Aggravating factors
i. the Registrant had not engaged in the regulatory proceedings in any meaningful way, nor had he provided any evidence of insight, remorse or remediation; ii. one of the Registrant’s convictions was for violence; and iii. the Registrant’s dishonest conduct was premediated and repeated on a number of occasions. It was also sustained over a prolonged period of time (10 years).
Source
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