Grzegorz P Skierka

Introduction

Grzegorz P Skierka is a paramedic who was registered with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) under registration number PA35070. On 18 November 2025, at a review hearing, a panel of the Health and Care Professions Tribunal Service (HCPTS) directed that he be struck off the register when his then-current suspension order expired on 20 December 2025. The direction closed a case that had run for more than four years from a July 2021 attempt to obtain psilocin and/or psilocybin — described in the determination as a Class A controlled drug — by ordering it online for delivery. A substantive panel had found the allegation proved, found misconduct and current impairment, and suspended him for twelve months; successive review panels extended that suspension twice before the striking-off direction came.

Background Information

The published record identifies Skierka as a paramedic holding HCPC registration PA35070. The determination windows do not name an employer and do not describe his training or career, and this page does not guess at them. 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

Misconduct is a regulatory finding, not a criminal conviction. What the substantive panel found proved was an allegation about conduct as a registrant, assessed to the civil standard. The published record contains no mention of criminal proceedings; what it records is the panel’s finding and the sanctions that followed from it.

The allegation concerned July 2021, when, the panel found, Skierka attempted to obtain psilocin and/or psilocybin — described in the determination as a Class A controlled drug — by ordering it online for delivery. The allegation stated that this amounted to misconduct and impaired his fitness to practise. The substantive panel found the allegation proved, found misconduct and impairment, and imposed a 12-month suspension.

The case then moved through the review process, and later reviews imposed two further six-month suspensions. The reasoning at the review of 6 June 2025 is on the record. The reviewing panel, sitting on the case the record summarises as “attempting to buy magic mushrooms online”, received no new evidence of insight, health management, reflection or maintained professional knowledge. It found no material change, “a real risk of repetition” and continuing impairment on personal and public grounds, concluded that a further six-month suspension was proportionate and allowed a final opportunity to engage before possible striking off, and warned that “continued non-engagement could lead to striking off”.

At the next review, on 18 November 2025, the panel directed that Skierka be struck off when the current order expired on 20 December 2025. The detailed reasons for the review panel’s findings on impairment and sanction were redacted from the public decision, so this page can describe only what the published order shows: the direction itself, its effective date, and the earlier findings it stood on.

Public Reaction and Consequences

The published record contains no press coverage of the hearings and no public statements from Skierka or any other party. The concrete consequences are those the record shows: a 12-month suspension from the substantive panel, two further six-month suspensions at review, and finally the striking-off direction of 18 November 2025, effective when the suspension expired on 20 December 2025.

The June 2025 review is the last point at which the panel’s reasoning is visible, and it left little room for a different ending: no new evidence of insight, remediation or engagement; no material change; “a real risk of repetition”; continuing impairment on personal and public grounds. What the panels were waiting for was engagement that the record shows never came — the warning that continued non-engagement could lead to striking off was six months old when the direction followed.

Current Status

Skierka was struck off the HCPC register by the review panel’s direction of 18 November 2025, effective when the then-current suspension order expired on 20 December 2025. The published decision records no interim order; the direction simply took effect on the expiry of the existing suspension. Striking off means removal from the register and an inability to practise as a paramedic in the UK unless a future restoration application succeeds, and within the HCPTS framework an erasure is reviewable after a minimum of five years. Because the review panel’s reasoning on impairment and sanction was redacted from the public decision, the published order — not any stated assessment — is the authoritative record of why the outcome was erasure. 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 Skierka’s registration and his ability to work as a paramedic in the UK unless restoration succeeds. The arc the record shows is a regulator working through its own escalation: misconduct and impairment found, a 12-month suspension, two further six-month suspensions each framed as a final opportunity to engage, and erasure when engagement did not materialise. The case illustrates both the patience and the limits of the fitness-to-practise system. Suspension is corrective in design, and the June 2025 panel said so explicitly when it granted a further period of one; where the conduct found proved involved attempting to obtain a Class A controlled drug, and no insight, remediation or engagement follows across successive reviews, the final step is rarely long delayed. Beyond the determination, the published record contains no information about his circumstances since the decision.

Sources

• *MedicWatch, “HCPTS panel strikes off Grzegorz P Skierka after controlled-drug case” (HCPC determination, review hearing, decision dated 18 November 2025) — source
• *MedicWatch, “HCPTS panel extends Grzegorz Skierka’s suspension” (HCPC determination, review hearing, decision dated 6 June 2025) — source
• *MedicWatch, “Grzegorz P Skierka — Paramedic · Health and Care Professions Council PA35070” — source