Aparna Srivastava
Introduction
Aparna Srivastava is a dietitian who was suspended from the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) register for six months in August 2025 after a reviewing panel found that serious record-keeping and clinical-reasoning failings from her work as a locum dietitian had gone unremediated, and that further conditions of practice were no longer workable because she was not committed to returning to the profession. The panel concluded that returning without further training would put service users at risk, and imposed suspension as the least restrictive protective outcome. The case appears on MedicWatch’s independent record of regulator determinations, on the official HCPTS hearings site, and on MedicWatch’s suspensions list.
Background Information
Srivastava worked as a locum dietitian for City Health Care Partnership (CHCP) between November 2017 and February 2018. The allegations against her covered that period and described a pattern: repeated poor record keeping and clinical reasoning, recommendations to service users that lacked proper support, and clinically unjustified health claims. Her fitness to practise was alleged to be impaired by misconduct and/or lack of competence. The regulatory history that reached the August 2025 review was a substantive conditions-of-practice order — a sanction that keeps a registrant working under restrictions — which she had been subject to when the review fell to be heard.
The Controversy or Incident That Led to Their Cancellation
Conditions failed to produce remediation. The reviewing panel found no evidence she had taken steps to address the concerns, and converted the conditions order into a six-month suspension.
At the review hearing on 13 August 2025, conducted in her absence with the panel concluding she had voluntarily absented herself, the panel examined whether the conditions order had done its job. It found no evidence that Srivastava had taken any steps to remediate the concerns, and that her fitness to practise remained impaired. The failings — the record keeping, the clinical reasoning, the unsupported recommendations and unjustified health claims across her locum caseload — remained unaddressed, and the panel judged that a return to practice without further training would put service users at risk.
The panel then considered the ladder of sanctions. Further conditions, it concluded, were no longer workable because she was not committed to returning to practice, and a six-month suspension was the least restrictive outcome that protected the public while leaving room either for genuine engagement or for consideration of voluntary removal from the register.
Public Reaction and Consequences
The case illustrates the endpoint a conditions order reaches when a registrant disengages: the sanction designed as a supervised route back becomes evidence that no route is being taken, and the panel moves up the ladder. The public-interest framing was explicit — suspension prevents practice by a dietitian whose recommendations to service users had been found unsupported and, in places, clinically unjustified, and whose engagement with the process had ceased. Srivastava is listed on MedicWatch’s public suspensions list among suspended allied-health practitioners.
Current Status
The order directed on 13 August 2025 suspends her registration for six months on the expiry of the existing conditions order, taking effect from 19 September 2025, with a further review required before its expiry on 19 March 2026. She cannot practise as a dietitian while it is in force. The review panel’s options at the next hearing remain suspension, extension, or striking off if the two-year restriction threshold has been met — and the record now documents that she neither engaged with conditions nor attended her own review.
Impact on Their Career/Life
Srivastava’s registration is suspended, ending her dietetic practice in the United Kingdom for the term of the order. The findings — unsupported recommendations and unjustified health claims to service users, coupled with a record-keeping failure serious enough to ground impairment — are permanently on the public register through the HCPTS hearings site and independent records such as MedicWatch. Any return runs through a panel that will first ask what changed in the years the concerns sat unremediated.