Health and Care Professions Council determination — substantive hearing

HCPTS orders Paul S Parsons struck off over comments and dishonest renewals

The HCPTS panel found misconduct involving workplace comments and four dishonest registration renewals. Sexual motivation and a separate failure to self-refer were not proved.

MedicWatch editorial · Published 26 May 2026 · Updated 23 September 2026

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Concerning Paul S Parsons, paramedic (Health and Care Professions Council PA31567).

Decision date: 26 May 2026 · Hearing started 26 May 2026

In plain English

The HCPTS panel ordered Paul S Parsons to be struck off for inappropriate workplace comments and dishonest good-character declarations on four registration renewals. The comments were sexual in nature, but sexual motivation was not proved. A separate allegation of failing to self-refer an employer warning was not proved. The panel found limited insight and a continuing risk of repetition. A separate interim suspension covers the appeal period and any appeal for up to 18 months.

Charges

The allegations concerned inappropriate comments to two colleagues, alleged sexual motivation, failure to report an employer warning and misleading or dishonest registration-renewal declarations.

Findings

The panel proved the inappropriate comments, including their sexual nature, but did not prove sexual motivation. It did not prove a separate duty to self-refer the written warning or the associated misleading or dishonest failure to do so. It nevertheless proved misleading and dishonest good-character declarations in four registration renewals. Receipt of the warning was factual rather than separate misconduct. The panel found serious misconduct and impairment on personal and public grounds, with limited insight and a risk of repetition. It ordered striking off and a separate interim suspension for the appeal period and any appeal, subject to a maximum of 18 months.

Mitigating factors

- The Registrant has demonstrated remorse and issued apologies in respect of Colleague A and Colleague B at the time of the misconduct and in his written submissions to this Panel. The Registrant has also made some admissions relating to his conduct and accepted that he did not inform the HCPC of the change to his good character. - The Panel noted that the Registrant has not been the subject of any previous fitness to practise proceedings. The Panel also noted that the Registrant had worked as a Paramedic between 2018 and June 2024 without any repetition of the conduct. However, the Panel considered that these factors carried little weight in the context of its earlier finding that the Registrant had demonstrated little insight and remediation and was at risk of repeating his misconduct.

Aggravating factors

- The distress caused to Colleagues A and B whilst at work. - The conduct was repeated despite the Registrant receiving a written warning for his comments to Colleague B; - The dishonesty was not inadvertent and continued over a period of time and had the potential to hamper the HCPC’s effective oversight of the Registrant; - The insight shown by the Registrant was considered by the Panel to be limited, particularly in relation to understanding the impact of the conduct on colleagues and the associated impact on the service users;

Source

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