Asima P Rafeeq
Introduction
Asima P Rafeeq is a hearing aid dispenser who was registered with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) under registration number HAD02905. On 7 July 2026, at the end of a rehearing that had begun on 29 June 2026, a panel of the Health and Care Professions Tribunal Service (HCPTS) found her fitness to practise impaired by misconduct and directed that she be struck off the register. The case concerned an excessive £34,000 charge for hearing aids supplied to a single vulnerable patient, an inflated £11,900 deposit accepted by cheque that did not clear, and misleading invoices — with dishonesty for personal financial gain found proved.
Background Information
The published record identifies Rafeeq only as a hearing aid dispenser holding HCPC registration HAD02905. It does not name an employer or a place of practice, and it does not describe her training or career; this page does not guess at any of them. Her MedicWatch profile records her most recent published outcome as erasure — struck off the register — decided on 7 July 2026 by the Health and Care Professions Council, while noting her registration status as not yet verified and directing readers to the official HCPC register for current details. MedicWatch aggregates regulator outcomes and states it does not editorialise the regulator’s findings.
The Controversy or Incident That Led to Their Cancellation
Regulatory findings, not a criminal case. The findings below come from an HCPTS panel applying the civil standard — the balance of probabilities. They are regulator findings, not criminal convictions, and no criminal proceedings appear in the published record. The panel expressly did NOT establish lack of competence, and found that one audiogram failing did not amount to misconduct.
The allegations before the panel concerned an inaccurate audiogram, selection of hearing aids that were not clinically indicated, misleading invoices, an excessive £34,000 charge, and acceptance of an inflated £11,900 deposit. Dishonesty for personal financial gain was alleged in connection with the invoices, the charge and the deposit. The case reached the panel as a rehearing: the impartiality of an earlier panel had been challenged, and its decision was not treated as current findings.
The rehearing panel found particulars 1 to 6 proved. The audiogram failing did not amount to misconduct, and lack of competence was not established because there was no reasonable sample of work to assess. Particulars 2 to 6 amounted to misconduct, including the finding of dishonesty for personal financial gain. The deposit cheque did not clear, but the panel nevertheless found that accepting and pursuing it satisfied the relevant particular. It found current impairment on both the personal and public components, no evidence of insight or remediation, and a high risk of repetition, and directed erasure with a separate interim suspension of up to 18 months to cover the appeal period.
On sanction the panel treated as mitigating that the conduct involved a single service user. In aggravation it found the conduct took place over several days, that the patient was a vulnerable service user exposed to potential financial harm, and that Rafeeq had demonstrated no insight and no remorse.
Public Reaction and Consequences
The published record contains no press coverage of the rehearing and no public statements — none from Rafeeq or from any other party. The concrete consequences recorded in the determination are the erasure direction of 7 July 2026 and the separate interim suspension covering the appeal period, capped at 18 months.
Current Status
Rafeeq was struck off the HCPC register by the panel’s decision of 7 July 2026. Her MedicWatch profile records erasure as her most recent published outcome, notes her registration status as not yet verified, and directs readers to the official HCPC register for her current position. The striking-off order was accompanied by a separate interim suspension covering the appeal period, meaning the restriction continues through any appeal before the final order takes full effect.
Impact on Their Career/Life
Erasure ended Rafeeq’s registration to practise as a hearing aid dispenser in the UK unless a future restoration application succeeds. The panel’s route to that outcome matters for how the case is understood: the dishonesty findings rested on the invoices, the £34,000 charge and the pursued deposit for one vulnerable patient, while the competence allegations were expressly not established and the audiogram failing was found not to amount to misconduct — a boundary the panel drew sharply in both directions.
Beyond the determinations, the published record contains no information about her circumstances since the decision, and nothing on this page should be read as going beyond it.