Daniel Plant

Introduction

Daniel Plant is a paramedic who was registered with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) under registration number PA39388. On 9 February 2026, a panel of the Health and Care Professions Tribunal Service (HCPTS) directed his removal from the register at the end of a substantive hearing. The panel found his fitness to practise impaired by reason of misconduct: sexually motivated conduct towards two junior female colleagues in October 2023, while he was working for a private medical ambulance service.

Background Information

The published record identifies Plant as a paramedic holding HCPC registration PA39388. He worked for OSR, a private medical ambulance service that has since been wound up. The record does not describe his training or career beyond that role, and this page does not guess at them. It does establish his standing within the service: the panel noted that, as the qualified paramedic and someone intended for a managerial role, he had been in a senior position to both colleagues concerned. MedicWatch, an independent record service that aggregates publicly published decisions of UK healthcare regulators without editorialising their findings, carries his case with erasure (struck off the register) 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 Controversy or Incident That Led to Their Cancellation

These are panel findings at the civil standard, not criminal convictions. The facts below were found proved by a fitness-to-practise panel on the balance of probabilities. No criminal charge appears anywhere in the record. What the panel assessed was the regulatory question: whether Plant’s conduct amounted to misconduct impairing his fitness to practise, and what sanction the public interest required.

The conduct dates to October 2023, while Plant worked for OSR. Early that month, according to the written statement of an ambulance technician referred to as Colleague A, he held his arms at either side of her face so that she could not leave, then “grabbed my face with both of his hands and began kissing me” without her consent. When she shouted at him to get off and tried to push him away, she stated, he “began to attempt to lift my shirt up”. She described escaping the vehicle through its side door, with Plant following, and hearing him say “What am I going to do with this now?”; as she turned round, his trousers were undone and “he had his penis exposed”. She stated that the two of them then got into the front of the ambulance and did not speak for the rest of the shift.

Later that same month, the panel found, he pushed his penis against an ambulance care assistant referred to as Colleague B without her consent, told her “I’d love to pull your trousers down not up”, stroked her face without her consent, and asked her “how much sex do you have, do you get it often enough”, or words to that effect. Colleague B had joined OSR only about a month earlier, in September 2023, and gave evidence to the panel in person; Colleague A did not appear before the panel, but her written statement was given in evidence.

The context was the workplace itself. Evidence from one of the women described how staff would meet in the car park of Royal Bolton Hospital, where Plant had been “very inappropriate and very flirtatious”. The panel found that it aggravated the case that there had been more than one incident of sexually motivated conduct, and that the conduct had been directed towards more than one junior colleague. It considered that his “conduct had been predatory behaviour”: he had engaged in breaches of professional boundaries over a course of text messages, and he had “misused opportunities at work to engage in the sexually motivated misconduct”. It decided that his actions amounted to misconduct.

Public Reaction and Consequences

The outcome was reported by the local press: The Bolton News covered it under the headline “Paramedic struck off after inappropriate behaviour in Bolton”, setting out the tribunal’s published findings, including Colleague A’s account of the ambulance incident. Plant did not attend the hearing and was not represented before the panel. The consequences were concrete: findings of misconduct on multiple sexually motivated actions, and a striking-off direction that ended his registration. The panel noted that the allegation involved multiple sexually motivated actions directed towards two female colleagues “who had a right to be treated with dignity and respect”.

Current Status

Plant was struck off the HCPC register by the panel’s decision of 9 February 2026 and may not practise as a paramedic in the UK unless a future restoration application succeeds. He had been subject to an interim suspension before the final hearing: an interim order first made on 24 September 2024 was confirmed by a panel of the Conduct and Competence Committee at a hearing on 26 January 2026. An interim order is a precautionary restriction imposed before a regulator’s investigation is complete; it is not a finding of fault. His MedicWatch profile records erasure (struck off the register) 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, including whether any appeal was pursued. An erasure is reviewable only after a minimum of five years, so any return to the register lies well into the future.

Impact on Their Career/Life

Striking off ended Plant’s registration and his ability to work as a paramedic in the UK unless restoration succeeds. The case illustrates how the regulator weighs sexual misconduct directed at junior colleagues: the panel gave weight to his senior position and intended managerial role, to conduct repeated across two colleagues within a single month, and to his misuse of work opportunities — features that place a case at the serious end of the sanction range before questions of insight or remediation even arise. His absence from the hearing left the findings untested on his behalf, but the panel proceeded on the evidence put before it. Beyond the determination and the press report, the record contains nothing about his circumstances since.

Sources

• *MedicWatch, “Daniel Plant — Paramedic · Health and Care Professions Council PA39388” — source
• *MedicWatch, “Daniel Plant — Interim restrictions imposed · 26 January 2026 (HCPC determination, interim orders hearing)” — source
• *The Bolton News (Joe Harrigan), “Paramedic struck off after inappropriate behaviour in Bolton” — source