Geoffrey P Fitzgerald
Introduction
Geoffrey P Fitzgerald is a radiographer who was registered with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) under registration number RA32256. On 27 May 2026, a panel of the Health and Care Professions Tribunal Service (HCPTS) approved a consent order striking him off the register, the ground being his convictions in June 2025 for two offences of attempted sexual communication with a child and one offence of attempting to incite or cause a child to engage in non-penetrative sexual activity. Fitzgerald admitted the allegation and his impairment and agreed to the outcome, with an interim suspension covering the appeal period.
Background Information
The published record identifies Fitzgerald as a radiographer holding HCPC registration RA32256. The determination window does not name an employer or describe his training or career, and this page does not guess at them. His MedicWatch profile — MedicWatch being an independent record service that aggregates publicly published decisions of UK healthcare regulators without editorialising their findings — lists three HCPC entries: an interim suspension imposed on 29 January 2026, confirmed at a review on 24 April 2026, and the striking-off of 27 May 2026.
The Controversy or Incident That Led to Their Cancellation
Convictions are facts; the striking-off was a consent disposal. The convictions below are criminal facts, recorded by a court in June 2025. The striking-off that followed was not a contested hearing: Fitzgerald admitted the allegation and his impairment and asked to be struck off. The HCPTS panel approved that agreed outcome, noting in terms that it was a consent disposal rather than voluntary removal.
The root of the case lies outside the hearing room. In June 2025, Fitzgerald was convicted of three criminal offences: two of attempted sexual communication with a child, and one of attempting to incite or cause a child to engage in non-penetrative sexual activity. In plain terms, sexual communication with a child is an offence of sending, or attempting to send, sexual communications to a child, and inciting or causing a child to engage in non-penetrative sexual activity is an offence of getting a child to take part, or attempting to get a child to take part, in a sexual act that does not involve penetration. The word “attempted” in each offence marks the conduct charged as an attempt rather than a completed act. The determination records the convictions as the basis of the allegation; it does not set out the underlying court proceedings or any sentence imposed.
Those convictions were what the HCPTS panel had to assess. The hearing began on 27 May 2026 and the decision issued the same day, the allegation before the panel concerning the June 2025 convictions. Fitzgerald admitted the allegation and admitted that his fitness to practise was impaired by it. He did not defend the case: he sought striking off by consent, offering the register’s most serious outcome as the agreed end of proceedings that his own convictions had made untenable.
The panel approved the consent order. It found that striking off was the appropriate level of public protection, and that disposal by consent was consistent with the public interest. The determination is explicit about what the outcome is and is not, noting that this was “a consent disposal rather than voluntary removal” — a panel-approved striking-off on the conviction ground, carrying the regulator’s public-protection findings, rather than a quiet exit from the register.
The mechanics follow the same pattern. The striking-off order takes effect after the appeal period, or on disposal of any appeal, and a separate interim suspension — subject to a maximum of 18 months — covers that window. Interim restrictions had been in place well before the final hearing: an interim suspension was imposed on 29 January 2026 and confirmed at a review on 24 April 2026, so Fitzgerald had not been on the unrestricted register since January.
Public Reaction and Consequences
The published record contains no press coverage of the hearing and no public statements from Fitzgerald or any other party. The concrete consequences are the consent striking-off order of 27 May 2026 and the interim suspension that keeps him off the register while the appeal window runs. Because the case ended by consent, there were no disputed findings to report: the convictions stood as facts, impairment was admitted, and the only live question — the appropriate disposal — was resolved by agreement and approved by the panel as protecting the public and consistent with the public interest. The record discloses no appeal and no further proceedings.
Current Status
Fitzgerald was struck off the HCPC register by the panel’s consent order of 27 May 2026. The order takes effect after the appeal period, or on disposal of any appeal, with an interim suspension — capped at 18 months — in force until then. 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.
Impact on Their Career/Life
Striking off ended Fitzgerald’s HCPC registration and his ability to work as a radiographer in the UK unless a future restoration application succeeds. The case illustrates the consent route in cases with an unanswerable record: convictions for child sexual offences admitted at the regulatory stage, impairment admitted, and the registrant himself seeking the register’s exit rather than prolonging proceedings — while the panel still scrutinised the proposed outcome and approved it only as the level of public protection required. Beyond the determination, the published record contains no information about his circumstances since the decision.