Health and Care Professions Council determination — substantive hearing
HCPTS strikes Benart Berisha off for workplace violence
The biomedical scientist assaulted a laboratory colleague and showed no meaningful insight or remediation.
MedicWatch editorial · Published 19 April 2024 · Updated 23 September 2026
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Concerning Benart Berisha, biomedical scientist (Health and Care Professions Council BS71769).
Decision date: 19 April 2024 · Hearing started 15 April 2024 and ended 19 April 2024
In plain English
The HCPTS panel struck biomedical scientist Benart Berisha off after finding that he violently threw a colleague to the laboratory floor, held him in a headlock and threatened colleagues. He showed no meaningful insight or remediation. The continuing violence risk threatened staff safety and disrupted laboratory services, making a lesser sanction insufficient.
Charges
Mr Berisha violently threw a colleague to the floor and held him in a headlock during a laboratory shift, used repeated abusive and threatening language towards colleagues, and failed to report his suspension and dismissal to the HCPC.
Findings
The panel found the assault and abusive communication proved and amounted to misconduct, though it did not find dishonesty or misconduct in the reporting failures. Mr Berisha showed no meaningful insight or remediation and presented a continuing violence risk affecting colleagues and patient services. The panel concluded only striking off could protect the public.
Mitigating and aggravating factors
Mitigating factors
Some insight and remorse, but limited to the language he used; very limited apology; the incident appeared to be a one-off in an otherwise unblemished career.
Aggravating factors
Lack of insight, remorse or apology about the violence; lack of remediation; potential harm to patients because laboratory work stopped and resumed in an unsafe atmosphere; inability to establish that the incident would not recur or become a pattern of unacceptable behaviour.
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