Health and Care Professions Council determination — substantive hearing
HCPTS panel strikes off Josep Bofill Blanch over boundary breaches and dishonesty
An HCPTS panel struck physiotherapist Josep Bofill Blanch off the register after finding sexually motivated boundary breaches, misuse of personal data and dishonesty proved.
MedicWatch editorial · Published 30 July 2025 · Updated 23 September 2026
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Concerning Josep Bofill Blanch, physiotherapist (Health and Care Professions Council PH121712).
Decision date: 30 July 2025 · Hearing started 22 July 2025 and ended 30 July 2025
In plain English
The HCPTS panel found that physiotherapist Josep Bofill Blanch breached professional boundaries by contacting a service user on social media, visiting her home and offering a gift. It found he misused her personal information, acted with sexual motivation and dishonestly failed to report his workplace suspension. The panel found current impairment and ordered him struck from the register, with an 18-month interim suspension during any appeal.
Charges
It was alleged that the Registrant breached professional boundaries by contacting Service User A on social media after her vaccination, visiting her home without a clinical reason and attempting to give her a gift. It was also alleged that he inappropriately accessed or used her personal information to find and visit her home, dishonestly failed to notify the HCPC of his workplace suspension, and acted with sexual motivation. The alleged conduct was said to amount to misconduct and impairment.
Findings
The Panel found every factual particular proved. It found that the Registrant breached professional boundaries, inappropriately accessed and used Service User A's personal information, acted with sexual motivation, and dishonestly failed to notify the HCPC of his suspension. It found misconduct and current impairment on both personal and public grounds, and ordered his name removed from the Register. It also imposed an 18-month interim suspension for any appeal.
Mitigating and aggravating factors
Mitigating factors
The Registrant does not have any previous regulatory findings recorded against him and no prior or subsequent complaints have been made;
Aggravating factors
The Registrant’s misconduct, although taking place over a short period of time, was persistent in nature in that he initially asked Service User A’s colleagues about where she worked and information about her break times. He then went to great lengths to contact Service User A including via social media and through accessing her personal data which culminated in the visit to her home. The Registrant failed to acknowledge and stop his persistent breaches of professional boundaries; The Registrant’s conduct caused emotional harm to Service User A; The conduct represented an abuse of a position of trust; The Registrant has not demonstrated that he has remediated his failings; The Registrant has demonstrated limited insight into his failings; There has only been a limited expression of regret and a limited apology, which failed to acknowledge the seriousness of the conduct itself.
Source
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