Health and Care Professions Council determination — substantive hearing
HCPTS panel places Asuquo Asuquo under 24 months of conditions
The radiographer must work under restrictions and supervision after findings of serious CT, contrast and patient-identification failings.
MedicWatch editorial · Published 1 September 2025 · Updated 23 September 2026
Conditions on practice (practising with restrictions) — 2 years
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Concerning Asuquo B Asuquo, radiographer (Health and Care Professions Council RA084601).
Decision date: 1 September 2025 · Hearing started 26 August 2025 and ended 1 September 2025
In plain English
The HCPTS panel found that radiographer Asuquo Asuquo committed numerous serious CT, contrast, patient-identification and reporting errors, amounting to misconduct and lack of competence, but found no dishonesty. It found partial insight, incomplete remediation and a continuing risk if he returned to CT work. The panel imposed 24 months of conditions restricting modalities and requiring supervision, training and reflection.
Charges
Mr Asuquo faced numerous allegations concerning incorrect CT scans, contrast use, patient identification and reporting, radiation and injector safety, cannulation and communication with colleagues. He was also accused of concealing or misrepresenting incidents and information, with related dishonesty allegations.
Findings
The panel proved numerous clinical, procedural and record-management failings and found both misconduct and lack of competence, but did not prove dishonesty. It found partial insight, incomplete CT-specific remediation and a continuing risk of repetition if Mr Asuquo returned to CT work. It found impairment on personal and public grounds and imposed conditions restricting practice and requiring supervision and development.
Mitigating and aggravating factors
Mitigating factors
The Registrant has not previously been subject to fitness to practise proceedings; he has worked continuously in NHS practice as an x-ray radiographer at Band 5 level since leaving the employing Trust in 2022 without further incident; he provided positive references and evidence of mentoring junior staff and students; he has undertaken CPD, including training on human factors and communication; he has engaged fully with the HCPC process and attended the hearing; he expressed some remorse and accepted the factual findings of the Panel.
Aggravating factors
The concerns involved multiple serious errors across core areas of CT radiography and patient identification; there was a pattern of failings over a sustained period; the Registrant demonstrated only partial insight, continuing to deflect responsibility onto Trust systems and poor supervision; there remains a risk of repetition, particularly if the Registrant were to return to CT scanning without further training and supervision; the errors carried the potential for very serious consequences, including unnecessary radiation exposure and a potentially fatal risk from an air bolus.
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