HCPC determination — substantive hearing
Struck off the register
The regulator’s term: erasure
What does “struck off the register” mean?
Being struck off (the regulator calls this "erasure") removes the practitioner from the register. They are no longer permitted to practise this profession in the UK. Erasure can be reviewed after a minimum of five years, but is otherwise indefinite.
Concerning Mark Considine, operating department practitioner (HCPC ODP18017).
Decision date: 11 December 2025 · Hearing started 11 December 2025
In plain English
The HCPTS panel decided that Mark Considine should be subject to the published outcome from a final hearing. The panel directed removal from the HCPC Register. The public page records the profession, registration number, allegation, finding, order, notes and hearing history for source verification.
Charges
The HCPTS allegation section states: is inaccurate and he did not swear, nor make any reference to the British Army. He said, “Don’t ever talk to me like that in front of my Patient Again”. The Registrant continued that Colleague A could have approached him privately and suggested amendments to his technique. 66. In his oral evidence the Registrant gave a similar account of the words he said he used. He disputed that his voice was raised. The Registrant said that the incident with Patient A had not particularly bothered him, there had been a difference of opinion, but he wanted Colleague A to know that he did not want to be spoken to like that in front of a patient. The Registrant disputed that he swore. His evidence was that he does not swear at all, notwithstanding his time in the army. 67. Mr AP, to whom the incident had been reported by Colleague A, wrote in his statement for the internal investigation that the Registrant “stated that he did not do that (assault Colleague A) and that Colleague A was not in the army now and could not tell people what to do. Mark Constantine [sic] then left the room in an agitated state stating “I’m not f**king having this””. Finding 68. The Panel did not find the Registrant credible when he said that the incident with Patient A had not particularly bothered him. The Panel considered that the Registrant was upset and annoyed that his practice had been challenged at all, and particularly in front of a patient. This is the logical inference from his statement, where the Registrant suggests that Colleague A should have spoken to him privately about any concerns. It followed, that the Registrant, being unable to accept that his method of applying the cast required improvement, and being unable to accept that Colleague A’s role included telling him what to do, as his...
Findings
The HCPTS page records a final hearing for Mark Considine by the Conduct and Competence Committee. The panel directed removal from the HCPC Register. The allegation section states: is inaccurate and he did not swear, nor make any reference to the British Army. He said, “Don’t ever talk to me like that in front of my Patient Again”. The Registrant continued that Colleague A could have approached.... The order section states: comes into effect..
Source
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