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HCPTS panel strikes off Imran Khan over cannabis conviction and dishonesty

An HCPTS panel struck physiotherapist Imran Khan off after finding he failed to disclose a cannabis-production conviction and dishonestly misled the regulator on a renewal form.

MedicWatch editorial · Published 3 November 2025 · Updated 23 September 2026

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The regulator directed removal from the register in this decision. The decision explains when the direction takes effect and any appeal provisions. Check the official register for the practitioner's current registration status.

Concerning Imran Khan, physiotherapist (Health and Care Professions Council PH114002).

Decision date: 3 November 2025 · Hearing started 31 October 2025 and ended 3 November 2025

In plain English

The HCPTS panel found that physiotherapist Imran Khan was convicted of producing cannabis and acted dishonestly by failing to disclose his charge and conviction and by misleading the HCPC on a renewal form. It found his fitness to practise currently impaired and concluded that his conduct was fundamentally incompatible with registration. The panel ordered him struck off.

Charges

Mr Khan was convicted of producing cannabis. He was also alleged to have failed to tell the HCPC about his charge and conviction and to have incorrectly declared on his February 2024 renewal form that there had been no change relating to his good character. Those failures were alleged to be dishonest and to amount to misconduct.

Findings

The panel found the conviction proved. It also found that Mr Khan failed to disclose the charge and conviction, knowingly gave an incorrect answer on his renewal form, and acted dishonestly. It found misconduct and current impairment on both the personal and public components, concluding that the conviction and dishonest conduct were at risk of repetition.

Mitigating and aggravating factors

Aggravating factors

The Registrant had a number of opportunities to declare the criminal matters from 3 March 2023 onwards; the criminal offence concerned the cultivation of a classified drug to sell; the Registrant deliberately misled the regulator as to his character status at renewal, preventing it from performing its statutory duty; the Registrant did not engage in the regulatory process and provided no information of insight, remorse or remediation.

Source

All facts on this page are drawn from the publicly published Health and Care Professions Council determination linked below. MedicWatch does not editorialise the regulator’s findings.

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