Health and Care Professions Council determination — substantive hearing

HCPTS panel suspends Stephen Chance-Hyett over sexual boundary breaches

An HCPTS panel suspended paramedic Stephen Chance-Hyett for four months after finding sexually motivated comments and non-consensual touching of a junior colleague amounted to serious misconduct.

MedicWatch editorial · Published 6 November 2025 · Updated 23 September 2026

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Concerning Stephen Chance-Hyett, paramedic (Health and Care Professions Council PA29702).

Decision date: 6 November 2025 · Hearing started 3 November 2025 and ended 6 November 2025

In plain English

The HCPTS panel found that paramedic Stephen Chance-Hyett sexually breached professional boundaries with a junior colleague through comments and non-consensual touching. It found serious misconduct and current impairment on public-interest grounds, while finding he had remediated his conduct and posed a low risk of repetition. The panel suspended him for four months.

Charges

Mr Chance-Hyett was alleged to have failed to maintain professional boundaries with a colleague by asking about her nipple piercing, touching her nipple and keeping his finger close to it through her clothes, making a comment about anal sex, touching her hips, and attempting to pull her onto his lap. The conduct was alleged to be sexual in nature and sexually motivated.

Findings

The panel found all the alleged conduct proved, sexual in nature and sexually motivated. It found serious professional misconduct. It concluded that Mr Chance-Hyett was not personally impaired because he had developed insight, shown genuine remorse and remediated his conduct, with a low risk of repetition, but found current impairment on the public component to uphold standards and public confidence.

Mitigating factors

The Registrant has developed insight and has reflected at length over the last three years; the Registrant has shown genuine remorse from an early stage, including during the SWAST investigation and prior to the HCPC referral; the Registrant made some early admissions; there have been no previous regulatory matters raised against the Registrant during his long career as a Paramedic, no further concerns have been raised since the incidents in Summer 2022, and the misconduct appears to be a departure from his usual standard of professional behaviour; the Registrant has shown a willingness to remediate and to address cultural issues within the profession by undergoing some further relevant training, speaking out and actively championing the sexual safety charter.

Aggravating factors

The imbalance of power between the Registrant and Colleague A, who was a younger, junior, female colleague; the Registrant's actions were sexual in nature and sexually motivated and included non-consensual touching, and he failed to maintain appropriate professional boundaries with Colleague A on a number of occasions, which was an abuse of his professional position.

Source

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