Health and Care Professions Council determination — substantive hearing
HCPTS panel suspends Ismael Hussain over fundamental radiography failings
A panel suspended radiographer Ismael Hussain for 12 months after finding wide-ranging competence failings posed a serious patient-safety risk.
MedicWatch editorial · Published 20 February 2025 · Updated 23 September 2026
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Concerning Ismael Hussain, radiographer (Health and Care Professions Council RA81703).
Decision date: 20 February 2025 · Hearing started 13 February 2025 and ended 20 February 2025
In plain English
The HCPTS panel found that radiographer Ismael Hussain lacked competence across fundamental radiotherapy skills and could not work safely without supervision. It found all factual particulars proved, current impairment and a high repetition risk, imposed a 12-month suspension and made an 18-month interim suspension order for the appeal period.
Charges
It was alleged that during an extended induction from March to September 2022 the Registrant could not demonstrate safe unsupervised practice. The particulars concerned radiation principles, treatment-plan uploads and image review, Linac quality assurance, contraindications, side effects and consent, patient setup checks, and MOSAIQ card calculations.
Findings
The Panel found Particular 1 and all sub-particulars 1(a) to 1(i) proved. It concluded that the failings arose from lack of competence rather than misconduct and found current impairment on personal and public grounds, with a high repetition risk. It imposed a 12-month suspension and an 18-month interim suspension for the appeal period.
Mitigating and aggravating factors
Mitigating factors
The Registrant’s lack of competence was demonstrated at an early stage in his career.
Aggravating factors
The Registrant’s lack of competence encompassed the fundamental skills of a Radiographer and had the clear potential to put patients at significant risk of serious harm. The Panel accepts that the Registrant was likely to have done so if he had not been so closely supervised by other Radiographers. The Registrant’s lack of competence endured over six months, with repetition of errors, despite the help and support given to him. The Panel has found that the Registrant initially had very limited insight into the extent of his failings but the email of 15 January 2025, referred to above, indicates that his understanding has deteriorated even further since he left the Trust, in that he appeared in that email to blame others for his failures. The Panel has seen no evidence of any efforts by him to address those failures identified.
Source
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