HCPC determination — review hearing
Suspended from practice — 2 months
The regulator’s term: suspension
What does “suspended from practice” mean?
A suspension is a fixed-term pause on the right to practise. The practitioner cannot work in the regulated profession during the suspension. At the end of the period the suspension may be extended, replaced with another sanction, or lifted on review.
Concerning William Smethurst, radiographer (HCPC RA64547).
Decision date: 15 April 2026 · Hearing started 15 April 2026
In plain English
The HCPTS panel decided that William Smethurst should be subject to the published outcome from a review hearing. The panel imposed, confirmed or continued a suspension for 2 months. The public page records the profession, registration number, allegation, finding, order, notes and hearing history for source verification.
Charges
The HCPTS allegation section states: As a registered Radiographer (RA64547): 1. On an unknown date, you took indecent and sexually explicit photographs of yourself on your mobile phone whilst in work, on duty, in uniform, in clinical areas of Blackpool Victoria Hospital. 2. Your conduct in relation to particular 1 was sexually motivated. 3. On 23 June 2022, you denied during an interview as part of Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust’s local investigation that you had taken explicit photographs of yourself in the workplace. 4. Your conduct in relation to particular 3 was dishonest, in that you knew that what you said in the interview (as set out in particular 3) was not true. 5. The matters set out in particulars 1, 2, 3, and 4 above, constitute misconduct. 6. By reason of the matters set out above, your fitness to practise is impaired.
Findings
The HCPTS page records a review hearing for William Smethurst by the Conduct and Competence Committee. The panel imposed, confirmed or continued a suspension for 2 months. The allegation section states: As a registered Radiographer (RA64547): 1. On an unknown date, you took indecent and sexually explicit photographs of yourself on your mobile phone whilst in work, on duty, in uniform, in clinical areas of Blackpool.... The order section states: is extended for a period of 02 months from the date that it would otherwise expire on 19 April 2026. Notes No.
Source
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