Aminah Migisa
Introduction
Aminah Migisa is a radiographer who was struck off the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) register in March 2024 after a reviewing panel found that longstanding concerns about her sonography competence had never been resolved. Conditions of practice had been in place since 2019, but she had shown no evidence of compliance and had not engaged with the regulator since March 2022. The panel found her fitness to practise remained impaired through lack of competence, identified an ongoing risk of repetition, and ordered her immediate striking off.
Background Information
Migisa was registered as a radiographer and employed by Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust when the concerns arose. The HCPC’s allegation was that she failed to reach the level of competence expected of a newly qualified sonographer during four clinical assessments: on 6 June 2016, 29 June 2016, 13 October 2017 and 14 December 2017. The matters were found to constitute a lack of competence and impaired fitness to practise, and a conditions of practice order was imposed in 2019 as the remedial sanction. At a first review hearing in March 2022, which she attended virtually, she gave evidence that she was then employed in Uganda; after that hearing the HCPC heard nothing more from her.
The Controversy or Incident That Led to Their Cancellation
Struck off after years of unresolved competence concerns and total disengagement. The reviewing panel found no evidence of compliance with the conditions imposed in 2019 and no engagement since March 2022.
The March 2024 review panel found that Migisa remained impaired because she had neither addressed nor remediated the established deficiencies. Conditions of practice had been in place since 2019 without any evidence of compliance, and she had not engaged with the HCPC since March 2022 — no response to the notice of hearing, no response to the HCPC’s email asking whether she would attend and offering guidance on what she could submit, even though she had demonstrated at the first review that she understood how to participate virtually. The panel concluded it was not unreasonable to conclude she had decided to continue with her life in her home country, found an ongoing repetition risk, and directed that her name be struck off the register with immediate effect.
Public Reaction and Consequences
The striking-off appears on the official HCPTS hearings site and on MedicWatch’s independent record of HCPC determinations, with Migisa listed among struck-off allied-health practitioners on MedicWatch’s erasures list. The review was conducted in her absence, with the panel taking care to record that service of the notice had been properly effected and that proceeding without her was justified after her sustained non-engagement. The immediate-effect direction reflected the panel’s view that no further period of conditions or suspension would achieve what five years of the conditions order had not.
Current Status
Migisa was struck off the HCPC register by the decision dated 11 March 2024, with the order taking immediate effect, and can no longer lawfully work as a radiographer or sonographer in the United Kingdom. The underlying competence findings date from her 2016-2017 clinical assessments at Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust; the 2024 decision is about what happened after — five years under conditions with no demonstrated compliance, then silence. No public statement from her and no appeal outcome appears in the fetched record.
Impact on Their Career/Life
Migisa’s UK career in radiography is ended by an order she was not present to hear, and the trajectory the panel recorded — newly qualified sonographer falling short in assessment after assessment, conditions unmet, then complete withdrawal from the process — is the public record any future registration attempt anywhere in the HCPC’s sphere would surface. Her determination remains permanently searchable on the HCPTS site and on independent records such as MedicWatch.