Chad Stockley
Introduction
Chad Stockley is a paramedic who was registered with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) under registration number PA46749. On 1 March 2023, at the end of a substantive hearing that had begun on 28 February 2023, a panel of the Health and Care Professions Tribunal Service (HCPTS) found his fitness to practise impaired and directed that he be struck off the register. The case followed his criminal conviction for sexually assaulting an 18-year-old male while attending the victim’s grandfather as a paramedic on an emergency attendance, together with a dishonest failure to notify the HCPC of that conviction. An interim suspension was imposed for the appeal period.
Background Information
The published record identifies Stockley only as a paramedic holding HCPC registration PA46749. It does not name an employer, an ambulance service trust or a region, and it does not describe his training or personal history; this page does not guess at any of them. His MedicWatch profile records his most recent published outcome as erasure — struck off the register — decided on 1 March 2023 by the Health and Care Professions Council, while noting his 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 determination does note one feature of his professional history: before these events he had a previously unblemished and distinguished career as a paramedic, a factor the panel recorded in mitigation.
The Controversy or Incident That Led to Their Cancellation
Conviction, not allegation. Chad Stockley was convicted of sexual assault in a criminal court; the account of the offence below reflects that conviction as recorded in the HCPTS determination, which also found a dishonest failure to notify the regulator. Presumption of innocence does not arise: this is a recorded conviction, not an unproven charge.
The matters before the panel arose from two connected facts. The first was Stockley’s conviction for sexually assaulting an 18-year-old male. The assault took place while he was attending the victim’s grandfather as a paramedic on an emergency attendance — an encounter the young man did not seek out, but which came to him through the ambulance service responding to his family. As an aggravating factor the determination records that, on conviction, Stockley was required to sign the Sex Offenders Register for a period of 5 years. The second matter was his dishonest failure to notify the HCPC of the conviction, which the panel found had damaged the trust the public can place in the profession.
The panel characterised the conduct as extremely serious misconduct amounting to a gross breach of trust and a breach of his professional duties towards a vulnerable service user. It found no evidence that Stockley had shown any remorse, insight or remediation, and it identified a significant risk of repetition. Concluding that the sexual assault, the breach of trust and the dishonesty were incompatible with continued registration, it directed erasure and imposed an interim suspension order to cover the appeal period.
Public Reaction and Consequences
The published record contains no press coverage of the hearing and no public statements — none from Stockley, the victim or campaign groups. The concrete consequences are the conviction itself and the erasure direction decided on 1 March 2023. The determination sets out the factors bearing on seriousness as follows:
- the conviction for sexual assault, with a requirement to sign the Sex Offenders Register for 5 years;
- a gross breach of trust and a breach of professional duties towards a vulnerable service user;
- no evidence of any remorse, insight or remediation; and
- dishonest conduct in failing to notify the HCPC of the conviction, which affected the trust the public can place in the profession.
In mitigation, the panel recorded Stockley’s previously unblemished and distinguished career as a paramedic.
Current Status
Stockley was struck off the HCPC register by the panel’s decision of 1 March 2023, with an interim suspension in force for the appeal period. His MedicWatch profile records erasure as his most recent published outcome, notes his registration status as not yet verified, and directs readers to the official HCPC register for his current position.
The sexual assault conviction is a criminal matter, and the determination records the 5-year Sex Offenders Register requirement as an aggravating factor. The published record does not state the sentencing court, the length of any custodial or other sentence, or the date of the conviction beyond what appears above; those details are not guessed at here. The regulatory sanction is erasure, and the panel’s finding of a significant risk of repetition followed from the absence of remorse, insight or remediation.
Impact on Their Career/Life
Erasure ended Stockley’s registration to practise as a paramedic in the UK unless a future restoration application succeeds. The panel’s reasoning records why no lesser sanction was considered appropriate: the sexual assault of a vulnerable service user during an emergency attendance was a gross breach of the trust placed in a paramedic, and the subsequent dishonest failure to report the conviction compounded the harm to public confidence in the profession. Against that stood a single mitigating factor — his previously unblemished and distinguished career — which the panel weighed and found insufficient to displace the conclusion that he was incompatible with registration.
Beyond the determination, the published record contains no information about his circumstances since the decision, and nothing on this page should be read as going beyond it.