Health and Care Professions Council determination — substantive hearing
HCPTS panel strikes off Philip Michael Hill over child sexual offence convictions
An HCPTS panel struck operating department practitioner Philip Michael Hill from the register after finding his child sexual offence and extreme pornography convictions impaired his fitness to practise.
MedicWatch editorial · Published 27 June 2024 · Updated 23 September 2026
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The regulator directed removal from the register in this decision. The decision explains when the direction takes effect and any appeal provisions. Check the official register for the practitioner's current registration status.
Concerning Philip Michael Hill, operating department practitioner (Health and Care Professions Council ODP15827).
Decision date: 27 June 2024 · Hearing started 27 June 2024
In plain English
The HCPTS panel found that operating department practitioner Philip Michael Hill's child sexual offence and extreme pornography convictions impaired his fitness to practise. It found an ongoing risk of harm and no meaningful evidence of insight, remediation or remorse. The panel concluded that the convictions were incompatible with remaining registered and ordered him struck from the register.
Charges
The allegation concerned convictions for seven counts of attempted sexual communication with a child, six counts of attempting to cause or incite a child to engage in sexual activity, six counts of attempting to cause a child to watch a sexual act, and two counts of possessing extreme pornographic images, followed by concurrent prison sentences totalling two years and three months.
Findings
The panel found the convictions and sentence proved and found Philip Michael Hill impaired on the personal and public components. It found an ongoing risk of harm, no meaningful insight, remediation or remorse, and concluded that the convictions were fundamentally incompatible with remaining on the register. It imposed a striking-off order.
Mitigating and aggravating factors
Mitigating factors
The Registrant entered early guilty pleas at the Magistrates Court; and He had a previously good regulatory history.
Aggravating factors
the Registrant had been convicted of numerous serious criminal offences in relation to child pornography and child sexual exploitation as reflected in the Judge’s sentencing remarks; the offences were deliberate and premeditated; the Registrant has not demonstrated any meaningful insight into his behaviour since his convictions (noting his guilty pleas at the Magistrates Court) and there is no evidence before the Panel that the Registrant has remediated his behaviour; and the Registrant has not demonstrated any remorse.
Source
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