Health and Care Professions Council determination — substantive hearing
HCPTS panel strikes off Matthew Joseph after four sexual assault convictions
A panel ordered radiographer Matthew Joseph's erasure after finding four sexual assault convictions and a continuing risk to the public.
MedicWatch editorial · Published 20 November 2024 · Updated 23 September 2026
Erasure (struck off the register)
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Concerning Matthew Joseph, radiographer (Health and Care Professions Council RA75738).
Decision date: 20 November 2024 · Hearing started 13 November 2024 and ended 20 November 2024
In plain English
The HCPTS panel found that radiographer Matthew Joseph's four convictions for sexual assault impaired his fitness to practise. It found a risk of repetition and no evidence of insight or remediation, ordered his erasure from the Register and imposed an 18-month interim suspension for the appeal period.
Charges
It was alleged that the Registrant was convicted at Sheffield Crown Court on 21 July 2023 of four counts of sexual assault on a female, contrary to section 3 of the Sexual Offences Act 2003, and that his fitness to practise was impaired by reason of those convictions.
Findings
The Panel found the conviction particular proved from the certificate of conviction and found a valid statutory ground of impairment. It found a risk of repetition, current impairment on public-protection and public-interest grounds, and no evidence of insight or remediation. It ordered erasure and imposed an 18-month interim suspension for the appeal period.
Mitigating and aggravating factors
Aggravating factors
the repetition of the offences aggravated the case. Further, the Panel had no information that the Registrant had insight into the convictions.
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