HCPC determination — substantive hearing
Struck off the register
The regulator’s term: erasure
What does “struck off the register” mean?
Being struck off (the regulator calls this "erasure") removes the practitioner from the register. They are no longer permitted to practise this profession in the UK. Erasure can be reviewed after a minimum of five years, but is otherwise indefinite.
Concerning Robert M Williams, physiotherapist (HCPC PH45724).
Decision date: 18 March 2026 · Hearing started 16 March 2026 and ended 18 March 2026
In plain English
The HCPTS panel decided that Robert M Williams should be subject to the published outcome from a final hearing. The panel directed removal from the HCPC Register. The public page records the profession, registration number, allegation, finding, order, notes and hearing history for source verification.
Charges
The HCPTS allegation section states: and to appeal it, it left the Panel with no evidence of remediation. 47. In those circumstances, the Panel concluded that it could not be said that the Registrant was highly unlikely to repeat his behaviour. To the contrary, his repeated behaviour and lack of remediation led the Panel to conclude, in its judgement, that there was a very real risk that the Registrant would repeat his behaviour and would thereby pose a risk of similar harm to members of the public in future if permitted to practise unrestricted. 48. Accordingly, it was the judgement of the Panel that the Registrant’s fitness to practise is currently impaired on the personal component and on public protection grounds. 49. It was the judgement of the Panel that the Registrant’s sexually motivated behaviour had breached fundamental tenets of the profession and had brought the profession into disrepute. On two separate occasions he had breached the trust of vulnerable women by exploiting them for his own sexual gratification, leading in the case of Service User W to a sentence of imprisonment for 15 months and his being placed on the Sex Offenders register for a period of 10 years. It was the judgement of the Panel that confidence in the profession would not be upheld, and standards within the profession would not be maintained, if a
Findings
The HCPTS page records a final hearing for Robert M Williams by the Conduct and Competence Committee. The panel directed removal from the HCPC Register. The allegation section states: and to appeal it, it left the Panel with no evidence of remediation. 47. In those circumstances, the Panel concluded that it could not be said that the Registrant was highly unlikely to repeat his behaviour. To the.... The order section states: comes into effect..
Source
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