Daniel Davis
Introduction
Daniel Davis is a paramedic registered with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) who worked for ambulance services in England. In November 2025, a panel of the HCPTS Conduct and Competence Committee found that during two shifts in 2024 he made sexual comments and engaged in sexually motivated touching towards Colleague A, a student paramedic working alongside him. The panel found the conduct amounted to misconduct and that his fitness to practise was currently impaired, and it suspended him from practice for six months. The suspension was later replaced with a conditions of practice order after a review in 2026.
Background Information
Davis was a newly registered paramedic, having first joined the HCPC register in January 2024. At the time of the events, he worked on a freelance basis for Lambda Medical Ltd, an independent ambulance service providing event medical cover and ambulance transportation, and he was also employed by Yorkshire Ambulance Service from 29 April 2024. His shifts with Colleague A, then a student paramedic, took place on 24 April 2024 and 20 June 2024.
The Controversy or Incident That Led to Their Cancellation
Suspended for sexually motivated conduct toward a junior colleague. A HCPTS panel found that Daniel Davis made sexual comments and engaged in sexually motivated touching towards Colleague A, a student paramedic, over two shifts in 2024.
The allegation was that Davis failed to maintain appropriate professional boundaries with Colleague A. It alleged that on 26 April 2024 he grabbed her waist without her consent, and that on 20 June 2024 he made a series of inappropriate and sexual comments “or words to that effect”, drew a penis on her laptop, and placed his hands on her thighs without her consent. Among the comments alleged were “The top of the radio would fit into your vagina” and “Your phone makes my dick look big”, along with a remark about her being struck off the register before she had even qualified. Colleague A raised concerns about his conduct during the shift on 20 June 2024; after an internal investigation, the director of Lambda Medical Ltd referred the matter to the HCPC on 5 July 2024.
At the substantive hearing, held between 17 and 21 November 2025, the panel found most of the alleged comments and touching proved, while finding one alleged comment not proved. It found that the proven sexual comments, the drawing and the touching were sexual and sexually motivated, amounted to misconduct, and caused emotional harm. The panel found Davis’s insight was still developing and that a risk of repetition remained, so his fitness to practise was currently impaired on both the personal and public components.
In mitigation the panel noted his developing insight and his early partial admissions and remorse in respect of the conduct he had admitted. Aggravating factors included that the conduct took place over two shifts, that Colleague A was his junior and suffered emotional harm, and the risk of harm to patients if she had not sought assistance from him or if teamworking broke down. On 21 November 2025 the panel suspended Davis from practice for six months and imposed an interim suspension for the appeal period.
Public Reaction and Consequences
The published record of the case centres on the regulator’s own findings. The panel held that members of the public would be concerned, and would not have confidence in the profession or its regulator, if Davis were permitted to return to unrestricted practice at that stage — a conclusion that directly shaped the sanction. The case is documented in the HCPTS’s published determination and is listed by MedicWatch, an independent record of UK healthcare regulator decisions, in its index of suspended practitioners with a six-month suspension entry. Colleague A is anonymised throughout the published materials, which also record the emotional harm the panel found she suffered.
Current Status
At a review hearing decided on 29 May 2026, a panel found Davis’s insight had developed — noting detailed reflections, remorse, voluntary work and continuing professional development — but concluded that remediation of the sexually motivated conduct was incomplete, because his learning had not covered it and a risk of repetition remained, leaving his fitness to practise impaired on both components. It replaced the suspension with a six-month conditions of practice order effective from 19 June 2026. The conditions require him to complete a course on sexually inappropriate conduct and maintaining professional boundaries, work under the indirect supervision of a workplace supervisor, agree a personal development plan addressing how he works with female colleagues, and submit a monthly reflective practice profile to the HCPC. The order must be reviewed again before 19 December 2026.
Impact on Their Career/Life
The six-month suspension barred Davis from practising as a paramedic for the duration of the order. Since 19 June 2026 he has been permitted to work only under restrictions: mandatory boundary training, indirect workplace supervision, reflective reporting to the regulator and a personal development plan, with the order subject to further review before December 2026. He must also tell any employer, agency or prospective employer for professional work that his registration is subject to conditions.