Published regulator decisions
UK healthcare practitioners formally warned
A formal warning is a note on the practitioner's record. It does not restrict practice but tells the public that the regulator considered the conduct to have fallen below expected standards. This page lists recent published warning decisions.
Latest matching decisions
79 total
Dental Professionals Hearings ServiceDentist
Warning(formally warned)
The GDC committee published a Professional Conduct Committee decision for Sasitha Balathasan. It issued a reprimand or warning. The public outcome summary states: On 7 November 2025 the Professional Conduct Committee found Mrs Balathasan's fitness to practise impaired and issued a reprimand. The official DPHS page links to the full determination PDF for the committee's reasons.
Medical Practitioners Tribunal ServiceDoctor
Warning(formally warned)
The MPTS tribunal considered a misconduct case for Jonathan Nigate. It recorded the decision on impairment as not impaired and issued a warning. The source PDF contains the tribunal's published reasons, with any private material redacted where required.
Dental Professionals Hearings ServiceDentist
Warning(formally warned)
The GDC committee published a Professional Conduct Committee decision for John Coetsee. It issued a reprimand or warning. The public outcome summary states: On 15 October 2025 the Professional Conduct Committee found Mr Coetsee's fitness to practise impaired and issued a reprimand. The official DPHS page links to the full determination PDF for the committee's reasons.
Dental Professionals Hearings ServiceDentist
Warning(formally warned)
The GDC committee published a Professional Conduct Committee decision for David Mario Janaka Tissera. It issued a reprimand or warning. The public outcome summary states: On 7 October 2025 the Professional Conduct Committee found Mr Tissera's fitness to practise impaired and issued a reprimand. The official DPHS page links to the full determination PDF for the committee's reasons.
Medical Practitioners Tribunal ServiceDoctor
Warning(formally warned)
The MPTS tribunal considered a conviction / caution case for Susannah Thoms. It recorded the decision on impairment as not impaired and issued a warning. The source PDF contains the tribunal's published reasons, with any private material redacted where required.
Dental Professionals Hearings ServiceDentist
Warning(formally warned)
The GDC committee published a Professional Conduct Committee decision for Abdul Kamara. It issued a reprimand or warning. The public outcome summary states: On 26 September 2025 the Professional Conduct Committee found Mr Kamara's fitness to practise impaired and issued a reprimand. The official DPHS page links to the full determination PDF for the committee's reasons.
Dental Professionals Hearings ServiceDentist
Warning(formally warned)
The GDC committee published a Professional Conduct Committee decision for Ian Richard Seddon. It issued a reprimand or warning. The public outcome summary states: On 25 September 2025, the Professional Conduct Committee found Mr Seddon's fitness to practise impaired and issued a reprimand. The official DPHS page links to the full determination PDF for the committee's reasons.
Health and Care Professions CouncilChiropodist / podiatrist
Warning(formally warned)
The HCPTS panel considered podiatrist Grahame Mann's use of incorrect implants in two operations, one of which required corrective surgery. He admitted the failings, showed genuine remorse and insight, and permanently stopped surgical practice. With no significant risk of repetition but a need to uphold public confidence, the panel imposed a three-year caution.
Dental Professionals Hearings ServiceClinical dental technician
Warning(formally warned)
The GDC committee published a Professional Conduct Committee decision for Nigel Bruce Boult. It issued a reprimand or warning. The public outcome summary states: On 13 August 2025 the Professional Conduct Committee found Mr Boult's fitness to practise impaired and issued a reprimand. The official DPHS page links to the full determination PDF for the committee's reasons.
Health and Care Professions CouncilPhysiotherapist
Warning(formally warned)· 2 years
The HCPTS panel found that Jason Jordan's drink-driving conviction and his later dishonest delay in telling the HCPC impaired his fitness to practise on public interest grounds. The panel found that he had good insight, genuine remorse and had remedied both matters, with a low risk of repetition. It imposed a two-year caution order.
Health and Care Professions CouncilPhysiotherapist
Warning(formally warned)· 2 years
The HCPTS panel found that David Gitonga breached professional boundaries with a service user, although it did not find sexual motivation. It found he had remediated, shown insight and posed a very low risk of repetition, but imposed a two-year caution to uphold public confidence and professional standards.
Dental Professionals Hearings ServiceDental nurse
Warning(formally warned)
The GDC committee published a Professional Conduct Committee decision for Bernadette Mary Gamble. It issued a reprimand or warning. The public outcome summary states: On 1 August 2025 the Professional Conduct Committee found Ms Gamble's fitness to practise impaired and issued a reprimand. The official DPHS page links to the full determination PDF for the committee's reasons.
Medical Practitioners Tribunal ServiceDoctor
Warning(formally warned)
The MPTS tribunal considered a misconduct case for Gagandeep Sachdeva. It recorded the decision on impairment as not impaired and issued a warning. The source PDF contains the tribunal's published reasons, with any private material redacted where required.
Health and Care Professions CouncilPhysiotherapist
Warning(formally warned)
The HCPTS panel considered physiotherapist Sabreen Qureshi-Hitchens's misleading Covid-19 social-media posts, which were linked to her professional status. She admitted the conduct, removed the posts promptly, apologised and showed full insight, with no repetition. The panel found public-interest impairment and imposed a one-year caution.
Medical Practitioners Tribunal ServiceDoctor
Warning(formally warned)
The MPTS tribunal considered a misconduct case for Amit Goel. It recorded the decision on impairment as not impaired and issued a warning. The source PDF contains the tribunal's published reasons, with any private material redacted where required.
Health and Care Professions CouncilRadiographer
Warning(formally warned)
The HCPTS panel considered radiographer Alexander Green's cannabis possession, which led to a police Community Resolution. It found misconduct and impairment on public-interest grounds, but no personal impairment and a low risk of repetition. Taking account of his remediation, admissions, self-referral and the absence of clinical concerns, the panel imposed a one-year caution.
Dental Professionals Hearings ServiceDental nurse
Warning(formally warned)
The GDC committee published a Professional Conduct Committee decision for Lucy Emily Jenkins. It issued a reprimand or warning. The public outcome summary states: On 23 June 2025, the Professional Conduct Committee found Ms Jenkin's fitness to practise impaired and issued a reprimand. The official DPHS page links to the full determination PDF for the committee's reasons.
Medical Practitioners Tribunal ServiceDoctor
Warning(formally warned)
The MPTS tribunal considered a misconduct case for Chitlapalli Sathyanath. It recorded the decision on impairment as not impaired and issued a warning. The source PDF contains the tribunal's published reasons, with any private material redacted where required.
Health and Care Professions CouncilChiropodist / podiatrist
Warning(formally warned)
The HCPTS panel found that chiropodist and podiatrist Andrew Ayres's police caution for soliciting sexual services impaired his fitness to practise on public-interest grounds. It found no personal impairment, accepting that he had shown full insight, extensive remediation and a very low risk of repetition. The panel imposed a one-year caution order.
Health and Care Professions CouncilBiomedical scientist
Warning(formally warned)
The HCPTS panel found that biomedical scientist Saber Bashir failed for more than eight years to disclose a police caution to the HCPC. It found no dishonesty and no current impairment arising from the old caution itself, but found misconduct and impairment because he had not kept himself informed of his professional obligations. It imposed a one-year caution order.
Dental Professionals Hearings ServiceDental technician
Warning(formally warned)
The GDC committee published a Professional Conduct Committee decision for Vijaysinh Mandan Vadar. It issued a reprimand or warning. The public outcome summary states: On 13 May 2025 the Professional Conduct Committee found Mr Vadar's fitness to practise impaired and issued a reprimand. The official DPHS page links to the full determination PDF for the committee's reasons.
Health and Care Professions CouncilOccupational therapist
Warning(formally warned)· 1 year
The HCPTS panel gave occupational therapist Shamiso Mashonganyika a 12-month caution for an excess-alcohol driving conviction and a prolonged failure to notify the regulator. Her insight, remorse, remediation and improved coping strategies made repetition highly unlikely, but a caution was needed to uphold professional standards and public confidence.
Health and Care Professions CouncilRadiographer
Warning(formally warned)· 4 years
The HCPTS panel gave radiographer Christopher Sharpe a four-year caution for racially motivated comments about a Black colleague, including a reference to George Floyd. The panel found the remarks serious but isolated and out of character. His full insight, extensive remediation, strong testimonials and very low repetition risk made suspension disproportionate.
Health and Care Professions CouncilPhysiotherapist
Warning(formally warned)· 1 year
The HCPTS panel approved a 12-month caution order for physiotherapist Omar Barry following a conviction for driving with a controlled drug above the legal limit. It found the incident isolated and the risk of repetition low.
Health and Care Professions CouncilParamedic
Warning(formally warned)· 1 year
The HCPTS panel gave paramedic David McEwen a 12-month caution for a domestic-violence conviction. It found that he had genuine remorse, strong insight and comprehensive remediation, making repetition unlikely. Nevertheless, the violent conduct breached a fundamental professional standard and required a sanction to uphold public confidence in paramedics.
Health and Care Professions CouncilPhysiotherapist
Warning(formally warned)· 3 years
The HCPTS panel replaced physiotherapist Arul Rathina's conditions of practice with a three-year caution. Although independent evidence showed he could practise safely, he had not been sufficiently open with his line manager about his restrictions and his insight into that lapse remained incomplete. The caution addressed the remaining risk without restricting practice.
Health and Care Professions CouncilParamedic
Warning(formally warned)· 4 years
The HCPTS panel imposed a four-year caution on paramedic Benjamin Ashcroft-Highet following an allegation that he shared an explicit video of a colleague without consent. The hearing was held entirely in private to protect those involved, and the public determination did not disclose the panel's substantive reasoning.
Health and Care Professions CouncilParamedic
Warning(formally warned)· 2 years
The HCPTS panel imposed a two-year caution order on paramedic Francis Mwangi after finding serious failures in assessing, documenting and treating a patient with severe abdominal pain. Dishonesty was not proved. The incident was isolated and the risk of repetition was low, but the panel found a public-interest impairment because the failings exposed the patient to potential harm.
Health and Care Professions CouncilPractitioner psychologist
Warning(formally warned)
The HCPTS panel found that counselling psychologist Martin Wilks repeatedly crossed professional boundaries and communicated inappropriately by email with a vulnerable service user. It found he had remedied the failings and posed a low risk of repetition, but that public confidence required a finding of impairment. The panel imposed a three-year caution order.