Health and Care Professions Council determination — voluntary removal
HCPTS approves Calvin J Ruck's voluntary removal
The physiotherapist admitted wide-ranging clinical, record-keeping and patient-information failures before leaving practice.
MedicWatch editorial · Published 2 September 2022 · Updated 23 September 2026
Voluntary erasure accepted (voluntary removal from the register)
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What does “voluntary removal from the register” mean?
The practitioner asked to be removed from the register and the regulator accepted the request. This may happen during or after a fitness-to-practise case.
Concerning Calvin J Ruck, physiotherapist (Health and Care Professions Council PH56742).
Decision date: 2 September 2022 · Hearing started 2 September 2022
In plain English
The HCPTS panel approved physiotherapist Calvin J Ruck's immediate voluntary removal from the register. He admitted extensive failures in record keeping, assessments, follow-up care, equipment provision, patient-information handling and hydrotherapy practice. He had stopped practising and did not intend to return, and the panel found removal adequately protected the public.
Charges
Mr Ruck admitted extensive failures in patient records, assessments, follow-up care and equipment provision, a breach of email policy involving patient information, and unsafe hydrotherapy practice.
Findings
The panel approved immediate voluntary removal. Mr Ruck admitted the allegations, expressed remorse and insight, had not practised since 2018 and did not intend to return. Removal on terms equivalent to striking off was found to protect the public and public interest proportionately.
Source
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