Health and Care Professions Council determination — review hearing
HCPTS strikes off Ihab Sharaf after review of practice order
An operating department practitioner was struck off after a review panel found continuing impairment, inadequate insight and no sufficient remediation.
MedicWatch editorial · Published 12 June 2025 · Updated 23 September 2026
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Concerning Ihab Sharaf, operating department practitioner (Health and Care Professions Council ODP32118).
Decision date: 12 June 2025 · Hearing started 12 June 2025
In plain English
The HCPTS panel found that Ihab Sharaf remained impaired after failing over several years to demonstrate sufficient insight, reflection or remediation for serious conduct and safety failings. It struck him off the register.
Charges
The substantive findings concerned aggressive and threatening conduct towards colleagues, acting outside scope of practice, leaving an anaesthetist without proper support during surgery, mishandling a controlled-drugs key, and failing to follow employer policies and procedures.
Findings
At review, the panel found Ihab Sharaf remained impaired on personal and public grounds. Despite years under conditions of practice, he had not developed sufficient insight, supplied the required reflective evidence, or demonstrated remediation, and a real risk of repetition remained. The panel found conditions and suspension no longer appropriate and directed striking off from 27 June 2025.
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