Diana Zuramskiene
Introduction
Diana Zuramskiene is a former UK radiographer who was struck from the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) register on 11 July 2023, after a review panel found that she remained impaired through lack of competence. The panel had no evidence of improved insight, remediation, education or professional development, and noted that she had not engaged with the regulator for more than three years; it concluded that further suspension would serve no useful purpose and directed that she be struck from the register.
Background Information
Zuramskiene worked as a radiographer, the regulated imaging profession responsible for producing diagnostic X-rays and other medical images. Radiography competence cases before the HCPC typically concern the fundamentals of safe imaging practice: operating equipment correctly, selecting the right projections and anatomical areas to image, following departmental protocols, and carrying out safety checks that protect patients from repeat exposures and missed diagnoses. Her case originated in allegations about failures in precisely those basics across several examinations.
The Controversy or Incident That Led to Their Cancellation
Struck off after a review found basic radiography competence failures unresolved and three years of non-engagement. The underlying findings were regulatory findings of lack of competence made by an HCPC panel on the civil standard; the July 2023 review decided the endpoint. No dishonesty finding was made against her.
The original allegations concerned failures to demonstrate basic or appropriate radiography skills and knowledge in several examinations. The published determination lists failures including using equipment, selecting projections and areas for imaging, following local protocols, and checking a patient’s last menstrual period before abdominal imaging — a standard safety check performed to avoid exposing a possible pregnancy to radiation. A substantive panel found these amounted to a lack of competence that impaired her fitness to practise.
At the review, the panel found that Zuramskiene remained impaired through lack of competence. It had no evidence of improved insight, remediation, education or current professional development, and it noted specifically that she had not engaged with the regulator for more than three years. Faced with a practitioner who had neither participated in the process nor produced any evidence of repair, the panel found no useful purpose in a further period of suspension and directed that her name be struck from the register.
Public Reaction and Consequences
The consequence of the review was the end of her HCPC registration. The panel’s route to striking off followed the regulator’s standard treatment of non-engagement: suspension is a temporary measure that presumes a registrant will use the period to remediate, and when a registrant neither participates in reviews nor produces evidence of training or insight, the panel concludes that extending the suspension protects no one and resolves nothing. The determination records the finding of impairment on the lack-of-competence ground, which the regulator distinguishes from misconduct — the case was about ability, not honesty.
The published determination does not name any patient as harmed by the examination failures, and no criminal proceeding appears in the record. The outcome rested on the competence findings and the prolonged non-engagement.
Current Status
Diana Zuramskiene was struck off the HCPC register on 11 July 2023. Her registration status can be checked on the official HCPC register. The published determination does not record any appeal against the striking-off order, and the non-engagement documented by the panel suggests she has not participated in the process since the original proceedings.
Impact on Their Career/Life
Striking off ends a radiographer’s ability to work in any registered imaging post in the UK. For a practitioner absent from the process for three years or more, restoration would require demonstrating remediation of decade-old competence findings to a fresh panel — a path rarely taken successfully from a standing start of total non-engagement. The case shows the endpoint of the regulator’s competence jurisdiction: the HCPC does not require dishonesty or harm to remove a registrant, only impairment that time and process have failed to repair.