Emma-Jo Montgomery
Introduction
Emma-Jo Montgomery is a chiropodist / podiatrist who was registered with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) under registration number CH34590. On 19 December 2025, at a review hearing of the Health and Care Professions Tribunal Service (HCPTS), a panel of the Conduct and Competence Committee directed that her name be struck from the HCPC Register. The review concluded a case that had begun with an April 2025 substantive hearing, where a panel found she had practised without professional indemnity insurance and dishonestly concealed the lapse from her employer, imposing a six-month suspension.
Background Information
The published record identifies Montgomery as a chiropodist / podiatrist holding HCPC registration CH34590. The record names Foot Medic as her employer for the period of the indemnity allegations, from July 2021. MedicWatch, an independent record service that aggregates publicly published decisions of UK healthcare regulators without editorialising their findings, carries her case with erasure as the most recent published outcome, notes her registration status as not yet verified, and directs readers to the official HCPC register for her current position.
The Controversy or Incident That Led to Their Cancellation
Regulatory findings, not a criminal case. The findings below come from HCPTS panels applying the civil standard — the balance of probabilities. They are regulator findings, not criminal convictions, and no criminal proceedings form part of this case. The April 2025 panel made the substantive findings; the December 2025 panel reviewed the six-month suspension those findings attracted and directed erasure. The published record states the outcome and the order but does not reproduce the review panel’s reasoning in full.
The allegation before the April 2025 substantive hearing had six particulars. Between July 2021 and April 2022, Montgomery was said to have failed to have in place the required professional indemnity insurance while practising — a requirement under the Health Care and Associated Professions (Indemnity Arrangements) Order 2014 for any registrant who is practising. In or around May 2022, she was said to have led her employer to believe that she held professional indemnity insurance when this was not the case, and between around May and July 2022 not to have provided her employer with confirmation of cover for the period of her employment. Particular 4 alleged that her conduct at particulars 2 and/or 3 was dishonest, in that she knew she sought to hide the fact that she did not have the insurance.
At that hearing the panel found she had practised without professional indemnity insurance and had dishonestly concealed the lapse from her employer; it found misconduct, current impairment and an ongoing risk of repetition. It imposed a six-month suspension and made an 18-month interim suspension order covering the appeal period. Part of the hearing was held in private on health-related grounds, on an application under Rule 10(1)(a) of the Rules to protect Montgomery’s private life, so the published record does not disclose the health material.
At the review on 19 December 2025 — the six-month suspension having reached its end — the panel directed removal from the HCPC Register: the Registrar was directed to strike the name of Emma-Jo Montgomery from the Register. The published record states the outcome and the order but does not reproduce the review panel’s reasoning in full.
Public Reaction and Consequences
The published record contains no press coverage of the hearings and no public statements from Montgomery or any other party. The concrete consequences run from the April 2025 substantive hearing — a six-month suspension, with an 18-month interim suspension for the appeal period — to the erasure directed at the review on 19 December 2025. A review that converts a suspension into erasure is the terminal step of the sanction ladder, and the published record states the outcome without reproducing the review panel’s reasoning in full. The record discloses no appeal and no further proceedings.
Current Status
Montgomery was struck off the HCPC register by the review panel’s direction of 19 December 2025. The earlier six-month suspension from 25 April 2025 has been superseded by the erasure. Her MedicWatch profile records erasure (struck off the register) as her most recent published outcome, notes her registration status as not yet verified, and directs readers to the official HCPC register for her current position, including whether any appeal was pursued.
Impact on Their Career/Life
Striking off ended Montgomery’s registration and her ability to work as a chiropodist / podiatrist in the UK unless a future restoration application succeeds. The case turns on professional indemnity insurance — a statutory requirement rather than a clinical failing — but the aggravating feature in the panel’s April 2025 findings was the dishonesty: leading her employer to believe cover existed when it did not, with an assessed ongoing risk of repetition. Six months later the review panel converted the suspension into erasure. Beyond the determinations, the published record contains no information about her circumstances since the decision.