Published regulator decisions
UK healthcare practitioners struck off the register
Being struck off (the regulator's term is "erasure") removes the practitioner from the register. They are no longer permitted to practise this profession in the UK. This page lists recent published erasure decisions for doctors, nurses, midwives, dentists, and dental care professionals.
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Dental Professionals Hearings ServiceDentist
Erasure(struck off the register)
The GDC committee published a Professional Conduct Committee decision for Michael Gordon Mew. It directed erasure from the dental register. The public outcome summary states: On 6 November 2024, the Professional Conduct Committee made an order to erase Mr Mew from the register and ordered that their registration be suspended immediately. On 3 December 2024, Mr Mew appealed against the decision. His registration will remain subject to suspended pending the resolution of the appeal. The official DPHS page links to the full determination PDF for the committee's reasons.
Dental Professionals Hearings ServiceDental nurse
Erasure(struck off the register)
The GDC committee published a Professional Conduct Committee decision for Lisa Jayne Brooks. It directed erasure from the dental register. The public outcome summary states: On 6 November 2024 the Professional Conduct Committee made an order to erase Ms Brooks from the register and ordered that their registration be suspended immediately. The official DPHS page links to the full determination PDF for the committee's reasons.
Health and Care Professions CouncilOperating department practitioner
Erasure(struck off the register)
The HCPTS panel found Salman Rafi's fitness to practise impaired following convictions for attempting sexual communication with a child and attempting to meet a child after grooming. It found a real risk of repetition, struck him off the register and imposed an interim suspension during the appeal period.
Health and Care Professions CouncilOperating department practitioner
Erasure(struck off the register)
The HCPTS panel found that Jason Jones dishonestly took Propofol from his workplace and self-administered it while on duty. It found misconduct, current impairment and a significant risk of repetition, struck him off and imposed an interim suspension during the appeal period.
Health and Care Professions CouncilRadiographer
Erasure(struck off the register)
The HCPTS panel struck radiographer Derrick Denteh Kofi off after finding that he coerced a woman into unprotected sex under the false guise of research and promises of money or a scholarship. The panel found sexually motivated misconduct of the utmost severity, with direct harm, no insight or remorse and a significant risk of repetition.
General Pharmaceutical CouncilPharmacist
Erasure(struck off the register)
The GPhC committee decided that Thomas Cave should be subject to the published outcome from a principal hearing in a misconduct case. The committee directed removal from the register. It records fitness to practise as impaired. The official determination gives the committee's reasons, order wording, and any conditions attached to the decision.
Health and Care Professions CouncilParamedic
Erasure(struck off the register)
The HCPTS panel struck paramedic Jason E Edwards off after finding serious patient-safety failings, controlled-drug misconduct and dishonesty in asking a colleague to provide a false account. He showed no insight, remorse, remediation or engagement, and the panel found a high risk of repetition that could not be managed by a lesser sanction.
General Pharmaceutical CouncilPharmacist
Erasure(struck off the register)
The GPhC committee ordered Mobolaji Adeyinka Onafuwa's removal in October 2024 after finding serious failures in online prescribing during 2019. It found limited insight and a risk of repetition and serious harm, but rejected improper financial motivation and found no evidence that he caused actual harm. The committee recognised his patient-safety concerns and previous professional work. An interim suspension applied while the removal decision awaited effect, subject to appeal.
Health and Care Professions CouncilSpeech and language therapist
Erasure(struck off the register)
The HCPTS Investigating Committee found that Jospi Alex did not meet the English-language requirements when she joined the register, although it did not find fraud or dishonesty. It ordered her entry to be removed from the register.
Health and Care Professions CouncilHearing aid dispenser
Erasure(struck off the register)
The HCPTS panel found that hearing aid dispenser Houman Motamedi communicated unprofessionally and repeatedly failed to follow fundamental assessment, record-keeping and referral procedures. Numerous vulnerable patients were affected and some required recall. With limited insight, insufficient remediation and a continuing risk of harm, the panel struck him off.
Health and Care Professions CouncilPhysiotherapist
Erasure(struck off the register)
The HCPTS panel found that physiotherapist Perumal Chokkalingam failed to obtain informed consent, continued treatment after a service user repeatedly asked him to stop, and later made two dishonest statements about what happened. It found misconduct and current impairment, citing limited insight and a risk of repetition, and ordered him struck from the register.
Health and Care Professions CouncilPhysiotherapist
Erasure(struck off the register)
The HCPTS panel struck physiotherapist Amine El-Bacha off after his conviction for three sexual assaults on a patient during treatment. He received a three-year prison sentence and indefinite protective restrictions. The panel found no insight or remediation, a high repetition risk and conduct fundamentally incompatible with professional registration.
Health and Care Professions CouncilBiomedical scientist
Erasure(struck off the register)
The HCPTS panel found that biomedical scientist Christopher Chase remained impaired after a 12-month suspension for misconduct involving inappropriate material at work and failures to notify the HCPC. It found no evidence of insight, remediation or remorse, noted his lack of engagement and intention not to practise again, and ordered him struck from the register.
Health and Care Professions CouncilChiropodist / podiatrist
Erasure(struck off the register)
The HCPTS panel found that Robert P Dordan-Pike's fitness to practise was impaired after three convictions for making indecent photographs or pseudo-photographs of a child. It found no evidence of insight, limited evidence of remorse and remediation, and a risk of repetition. The panel decided striking off was necessary to protect the public and maintain confidence in the profession.
Health and Care Professions CouncilBiomedical scientist
Erasure(struck off the register)
The HCPTS review panel found that biomedical scientist Adrian Patrick remained impaired after proven laboratory recording and communication misconduct. With no engagement or remediation and no confidence that he was safe to practise unrestricted, it ordered striking off when his suspension expired on 6 October 2024.
Health and Care Professions CouncilPractitioner psychologist
Erasure(struck off the register)
The HCPTS panel struck practitioner psychologist Evelyn V Bliss off the register with immediate effect. The allegations concerned professional boundaries, safeguarding and opinions given outside her scope of practice. The review hearing was held entirely in private because of a Family Court order and to protect private lives, so the published decision does not give the panel's detailed reasoning.
Health and Care Professions CouncilParamedic
Erasure(struck off the register)
The HCPTS panel found that paramedic Brian R Brooker repeatedly assaulted a former partner and physically and sexually abused her daughter when she was a child. It found serious misconduct, current impairment and an ongoing public risk, and struck him off the register.
Health and Care Professions CouncilParamedic
Erasure(struck off the register)
The HCPTS panel found that paramedic Raymond Byron remained impaired because he had provided no evidence that he had remedied record-keeping and patient-care failings found at an earlier hearing. It found that his lack of engagement ruled out conditions and made another suspension pointless. The panel ordered his name struck from the register when his suspension expired.
Dental Professionals Hearings ServiceDentist
Erasure(struck off the register)
Goncalo Beirao Magro Gomes Sanches
The GDC committee published a Professional Conduct Committee decision for Goncalo Beirao Magro Gomes Sanches. It directed erasure from the dental register. The public outcome summary states: On 21 August 2024 the Professional Conduct Committee made an order to erase Mr Beirao Magro Gomes Sanches from the register and ordered that their registration be suspended immediately. The official DPHS page links to the full determination PDF for the committee's reasons.
Dental Professionals Hearings ServiceDental nurse
Erasure(struck off the register)
The GDC committee published a Professional Conduct Committee decision for Pamela Marie Sharples. It directed erasure from the dental register. The public outcome summary states: On 7 August 2024 the Professional Conduct Committee made an order to erase Ms Sharples' from the register and ordered that their registration be suspended immediately. The official DPHS page links to the full determination PDF for the committee's reasons.
Dental Professionals Hearings ServiceDental therapist
Erasure(struck off the register)
The GDC committee published a Professional Conduct Committee decision for Charlotte Louise Tilley. It directed erasure from the dental register. The public outcome summary states: On 01 August 2024 the Professional Conduct Committee made an order to erase Ms Tilley from the register and ordered that their registration be suspended immediately. The official DPHS page links to the full determination PDF for the committee's reasons.
Health and Care Professions CouncilPhysiotherapist
Erasure(struck off the register)
The HCPTS panel struck physiotherapist Daniel Start off after finding that he deliberately touched a service user's vagina during treatment for sexual gratification and also kept inadequate records. He arranged the appointment outside his employer's normal system. The panel found minimal insight, no meaningful remediation and a continuing risk to service users.
Health and Care Professions CouncilPhysiotherapist
Erasure(struck off the register)
The HCPTS panel found that physiotherapist Elizabeth Israel remained impaired after her suspension for dishonestly writing references that purported to come from former employers. It found insufficient insight or remediation and unresolved concerns about evidence submitted for the review. Concluding that another suspension would serve no purpose, the panel ordered her struck from the register.
General Pharmaceutical CouncilPharmacist
Erasure(struck off the register)
The GPhC committee decided that Naureen Amirali WALJI should be subject to the published outcome from a principal hearing in a misconduct case. The committee directed removal from the register. It records fitness to practise as impaired. The official determination gives the committee's reasons, order wording, and any conditions attached to the decision.
General Pharmaceutical CouncilPharmacist
Erasure(struck off the register)
The GPhC committee directed Sajjaad Patel's removal from the pharmacists' register in July 2024 after finding serious sexual misconduct during a patient consultation. The document records an earlier criminal acquittal; the committee made its separate findings using the civil standard of proof. It found impaired fitness to practise, limited insight and insufficient remediation, and imposed an immediate interim suspension pending removal taking effect.
Dental Professionals Hearings ServiceDental nurse
Erasure(struck off the register)
The GDC committee published a Professional Conduct Committee decision for Sarah Marie Thorpe. It directed erasure from the dental register. The public outcome summary states: On 8 July 2024, the Professional Conduct Committee made an order to erase Ms Thorpe from the register and ordered that their registration be suspended immediately. The official DPHS page links to the full determination PDF for the committee's reasons.
Dental Professionals Hearings ServiceDental nurse
Erasure(struck off the register)
The GDC committee published a Professional Conduct Committee decision for Sidra Hamid Syed. It directed erasure from the dental register. The public outcome summary states: On 9 July 2024 the Professional Conduct Committee made an order to erase Ms Syed from the register. The official DPHS page links to the full determination PDF for the committee's reasons.
Dental Professionals Hearings ServiceDentist
Erasure(struck off the register)
The GDC committee published a Professional Conduct Committee decision for Simon Atta Darfoor. It directed erasure from the dental register. The public outcome summary states: On 02 July 2024 the Professional Conduct Committee made an order to erase Mr Darfoor's from the register and ordered that his registration be suspended immediately. The official DPHS page links to the full determination PDF for the committee's reasons.
Dental Professionals Hearings ServiceDentist
Erasure(struck off the register)
The GDC committee published a Professional Conduct Committee decision for Surinder Singh Hundle. It directed erasure from the dental register. The public outcome summary states: On 25 June 2024, the Professional Conduct Committee made an order to erase Mr Hundle from the register and ordered that their registration be suspended immediately. The official DPHS page links to the full determination PDF for the committee's reasons.
Health and Care Professions CouncilBiomedical scientist
Erasure(struck off the register)
The HCPTS review panel struck biomedical scientist Kelly L Madden off the Register after finding that she had not sufficiently addressed concerns arising from a racially aggravated police caution. It found that her limited remediation and continuing risk meant that another suspension would serve no useful purpose.
Health and Care Professions CouncilOperating department practitioner
Erasure(struck off the register)
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.
Health and Care Professions CouncilParamedic
Erasure(struck off the register)
The HCPTS panel found that paramedic Scott O'Sullivan had non-consensual sexual intercourse with Person A in 2007 and that the conduct was sexually motivated. Although it found the repetition risk extremely low, it found public-interest impairment and struck him off; it refused an interim order.
Dental Professionals Hearings ServiceDentist
Erasure(struck off the register)
The GDC committee published a Professional Conduct Committee decision for Timothy Edwin Lloyd. It directed erasure from the dental register. The public outcome summary states: On 4 June 2024 the Professional Conduct Committee made an order to erase Mr Lloyd from the register and ordered that their registration be suspended immediately. The official DPHS page links to the full determination PDF for the committee's reasons.
General Pharmaceutical CouncilPharmacy technician
Erasure(struck off the register)
The GPhC committee decided that Jennie Dawn Collins should be subject to the published outcome from a principal hearing in a misconduct case. The committee directed removal from the register. It records fitness to practise as impaired. The official determination gives the committee's reasons, order wording, and any conditions attached to the decision.
General Pharmaceutical CouncilPharmacist
Erasure(struck off the register)
The GPhC committee decided that Ramesh Chuthraj should be subject to the published outcome from a principal hearing in a conviction case. The committee directed removal from the register. It records fitness to practise as impaired. The official determination gives the committee's reasons, order wording, and any conditions attached to the decision.
General Pharmaceutical CouncilPharmacist
Erasure(struck off the register)
The GPhC committee directed Muhammad Qasim Ali Manzoor's removal from the pharmacists' register in May 2024. It found that he supplied medicines to another pharmacist knowing they were very likely to be abused. The committee found serious misconduct and impaired fitness to practise, with limited insight and no demonstrated remediation. It also imposed interim suspension pending removal taking effect.
Health and Care Professions CouncilPhysiotherapist
Erasure(struck off the register)
The HCPTS panel found that Markus Matkovits committed misconduct through serious patient-care and record-keeping failings. It found his fitness to practise impaired on personal and public grounds, citing very limited insight and a significant risk of repetition. The panel did not prove the alternative dishonesty particulars. It decided no lesser sanction would protect the public and struck him off.
Health and Care Professions CouncilRadiographer
Erasure(struck off the register)
The HCPTS panel found that radiographer Steven P Lowe made racially motivated and otherwise unprofessional comments to colleagues and communicated in an intimidating manner. It found misconduct, current impairment, incomplete insight and a significant risk of repetition. The panel ordered him struck from the register and imposed an interim suspension for the appeal period.
General Pharmaceutical CouncilPharmacist
Erasure(struck off the register)
The GPhC committee directed Russell Buglass's removal from the pharmacists' register on 9 May 2024 following convictions involving indecent images of children and other prohibited sexual images. It found impaired fitness to practise, limited insight and insufficient evidence of remediation. Although it recognised cooperation with the police and early guilty pleas, it concluded that lesser sanctions were insufficient and imposed an interim suspension pending removal taking effect.
Health and Care Professions CouncilChiropodist / podiatrist
Erasure(struck off the register)
The HCPTS panel struck podiatrist Ryan B Norman off the register following convictions involving extreme pornography and indecent images of children over more than eight years. It found very limited insight, no remorse or remediation and a real risk of repetition. The panel concluded that only removal could protect public confidence and imposed an interim suspension.
Health and Care Professions CouncilBiomedical scientist
Erasure(struck off the register)
The HCPTS panel struck biomedical scientist Benart Berisha off after finding that he violently threw a colleague to the laboratory floor, held him in a headlock and threatened colleagues. He showed no meaningful insight or remediation. The continuing violence risk threatened staff safety and disrupted laboratory services, making a lesser sanction insufficient.
General Pharmaceutical CouncilPharmacist
Erasure(struck off the register)
The GPhC committee decided that Sanjay Shah should be subject to the published outcome from a principal hearing in a conviction/inclusion in a barred list case. The committee directed removal from the register. It records fitness to practise as impaired. The official determination gives the committee's reasons, order wording, and any conditions attached to the decision.
Health and Care Professions CouncilBiomedical scientist
Erasure(struck off the register)
The HCPTS panel struck biomedical scientist Simon A Lockyear off after more than three years of suspension for serious laboratory reporting failures. He had not engaged since February 2022 or provided evidence of remediation, health management or current competence. The panel concluded that conditions would not protect the public and further suspension would serve no purpose.
General Pharmaceutical CouncilPharmacist
Erasure(struck off the register)
The GPhC committee decided that Emma Louise Mason should be subject to the published outcome from a principal hearing in a conviction case. The committee directed removal from the register. It records fitness to practise as impaired. The official determination gives the committee's reasons, order wording, and any conditions attached to the decision.
Health and Care Professions CouncilOperating department practitioner
Erasure(struck off the register)
The HCPTS review panel found that operating department practitioner Susan Glaiser remained impaired after drug-related convictions and dishonest delayed disclosure to the HCPC. Although her substance use had been remediated, she had not engaged or addressed the misconduct, so the panel struck her off from 5 April 2024.
General Pharmaceutical CouncilPharmacist
Erasure(struck off the register)
The GPhC committee decided that Bhavin Kantilal Shah should be subject to the published outcome from a principal hearing in a misconduct case. The committee directed removal from the register. It records fitness to practise as impaired. The official determination gives the committee's reasons, order wording, and any conditions attached to the decision.
Health and Care Professions CouncilOperating department practitioner
Erasure(struck off the register)
The HCPTS panel found that Dawn Earp repeatedly forged and altered prescriptions to obtain medication that had not been prescribed. It found her conduct dishonest, with no genuine insight or remediation and a high risk of repetition. The panel said the conduct was fundamentally incompatible with registration and struck the operating department practitioner off the Register.
Health and Care Professions CouncilArts therapist
Erasure(struck off the register)
The HCPTS panel approved a consent order striking arts therapist Rose Thorn off the register after allegations that she entered a romantic relationship with a service user and committed sexualised boundary breaches. It also imposed an interim suspension for the appeal period because the allegations were serious and there was no evidence of remediation.
Health and Care Professions CouncilPhysiotherapist
Erasure(struck off the register)
The HCPC panel found that Shiv Kumar Bhimasani had concealed criminal convictions through repeated dishonest declarations over many years. It concluded that he remained impaired, posed an ongoing risk, and should be removed from the register.
Health and Care Professions CouncilParamedic
Erasure(struck off the register)
The HCPTS panel struck paramedic Mark Titley off the register after his conviction for stealing money from a vulnerable patient's home while attending an emergency. The panel found his insight incomplete and a risk of repetition. It described the offence as dishonesty, abuse of professional position and breach of trust, and concluded that no lesser sanction would maintain public confidence.