Bogdan Volindan

Introduction

Bogdan Volindan is a paramedic formerly employed by the North East Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust who was suspended from the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) register in July 2026 after a Conduct and Competence Committee panel found that he had fabricated a training placement book, forging his mentor’s signature without her consent, while completing an offshore medic course. The panel concluded that his dishonesty was a planned and deliberate course of conduct, embarked upon for direct personal gain, and that it amounted to a significant breach of trust. He did not attend the final hearing and was not represented; the panel proceeded in his absence and imposed a Suspension Order of nine months.

Background Information

In October 2022, Volindan began an Offshore Medic training course with MediPro Limited, a private training organisation. The course cost in the region of £2,000 and combined two weeks of classroom-based learning with 60 hours of practical placement. Participants who could not arrange their own placement could pay the provider around £1,000 to arrange one, but Volindan instead chose to arrange his own placement with Person B, a qualified mentor approved by the course provider. The provider emailed him in January 2023 to remind him that the placement had to be completed by 17 April 2023, and again in May 2023 for a progress update. In his reply he said he was in Romania and suggested he may have written the wrong address on the paperwork when moving house.

The Controversy or Incident That Led to Their Cancellation

Suspended for dishonesty. The panel found the particulars proved, including the dishonesty findings, on the civil standard. No criminal proceedings feature in the published decision.

Between around 15 and 26 May 2023, the course provider received a completed Learner Placement Book from Volindan recording placements at Surgery A on six dates in November 2022 and February 2023, together with Person B’s signature against placement hours and training objectives. The panel found he had recorded placements that never took place and had inputted Person B’s signature on placement dates, hour declarations and competency achievements without her consent, while knowing he did not have it. Particular 2 alleged that his representation that he had undertaken the placements was dishonest; the panel agreed. It noted that a text message he sent reading “need 60 hours but a 2-3 shifts will do” [sic] showed he had no intention of completing the required hours from the outset, that he falsified all entries using fictitious details, disguised handwriting and forged signatures, and that he persisted despite multiple opportunities to explain his shortfall. The motive, the panel found, was a better-paid position: the dishonesty was for direct personal gain. Having submitted the book, he then contacted Person B and admitted he had made up what he submitted, suggesting she could simply tell the provider he had been a “good boy”.

Public Reaction and Consequences

The HCPC case proceeded on the documentary trail: the fabricated book, the emails with the provider, and Person B’s account. Volindan did not attend the final hearing on 23 July 2026 and was not represented; the panel was satisfied he had been served with notice and had voluntarily absented himself. In sanction reasoning it determined that his dishonest conduct was persistent and serious and constituted a significant breach of the trust placed in a paramedic registrant. It judged that a temporary removal from the register for nine months would reflect the seriousness of the misconduct found proved, while also enabling him to demonstrate developed insight and remediation to a future reviewing panel. The panel acknowledged the sanction would significantly affect his ability to earn a living but concluded that the public interest in professional standards outweighed his interests. An interim suspension order covers the appeal period, which the panel considered necessary because, in its words, a member of the public would be shocked to learn he could continue working unrestricted in these circumstances.

Current Status

Volindan was suspended for nine months from the date the order came into effect, and the order will be reviewed before it expires. He is barred from practising as a paramedic while the suspension stands, and the interim suspension restricts him during any appeal window. The reviewing panel was told it may be assisted by his continued engagement and attendance at the review, by detailed reflections analysing the effect of his conduct on MediPro, Person B and the wider public, and by evidence of embedded learning from any training undertaken. The published decision records no reflective statement or expression of remorse from him as of the hearing.

Impact on Their Career/Life

The suspension removes Volindan from front-line ambulance practice for the order’s duration and places a dishonesty finding on the public register that any future employer in a regulated field can see. Because the fabricated placement book was tied to an offshore medic qualification carrying higher remuneration, the case sits in the regulator’s most serious dishonesty category: a planned course of conduct for financial gain rather than a single lapse under pressure. The panel’s direction that a reviewing panel be shown analysis of the harm to Person B, whose signature was used without consent, underlines that the casualty of the fraud was not only the training provider but a named colleague whose professional endorsement was counterfeited. His absence from the hearing, and the absence of any remediation evidence, leave the suspension’s exit conditions entirely dependent on engagement he has so far not offered.

Sources

• HCPTS, “Bogdan Volindan — Final Hearing, Conduct and Competence Committee, Suspended,” July 2026. source