Gurprit Kaloya

Introduction

Gurprit Kaloya is an operating department practitioner (ODP) who was registered with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) under registration number ODP20414. On 22 May 2026, at the end of a substantive hearing that had begun on 20 May 2026, a panel of the Health and Care Professions Tribunal Service (HCPTS) found his fitness to practise impaired by misconduct and directed that he be struck off the register, with the order stating an effective date of 19 June 2026. The case concerned three incidents in August and November 2023 in which he dishonestly took and self-administered midazolam and worked while intoxicated — conduct the panel found exposed anaesthetised patients to significant risk.

Background Information

The published record identifies Kaloya only as an operating department practitioner holding HCPC registration ODP20414. It does not name the two hospitals involved beyond describing them as different hospitals, and it does not describe his training or career; this page does not guess at any of them. His MedicWatch profile records his most recent published outcome as erasure — struck off the register — decided on 22 May 2026 by the Health and Care Professions Council, while noting his registration status as not yet verified and directing readers to the official HCPC register for current details. MedicWatch aggregates regulator outcomes and states it does not editorialise the regulator’s findings.

The Controversy or Incident That Led to Their Cancellation

Regulatory findings, not a criminal case. The findings below come from an HCPTS panel applying the civil standard — the balance of probabilities. They are regulator findings, not criminal convictions, and no criminal proceedings appear in the published record. The panel noted later negative drug tests but found they did not determine what occurred in 2023.

The allegations concerned three incidents in August and November 2023 involving unauthorised taking and self-administration of midazolam, intoxication at work, and dishonesty — including failure to fulfil his ODP role and possession of two ampoules without clinical reason.

The panel proved all factual particulars and found misconduct and current impairment on both the personal and public components. It found the conduct exposed anaesthetised patients — vulnerable by the very fact of being in operating theatres — to serious risk of harm, with no meaningful remediation and a significant risk of repetition. Later negative drug tests were recognised but did not determine what occurred in 2023. The panel directed striking off, with the order stating an effective date of 19 June 2026, and imposed a separate interim suspension covering the appeal period for a maximum of 18 months.

In aggravation the panel found Kaloya had breached the trust of his position in each incident — it was precisely because he was entrusted with the keys to the Controlled Drugs Cupboard as an ODP that he was able to carry out the actions — and that the breaches were repeated across three incidents over nearly four months in two different hospitals. An earlier interim orders hearing on 26 March 2026 had confirmed an interim suspension; interim orders are precautionary and are not findings of fault.

Public Reaction and Consequences

The published record contains no press coverage of the hearing and no public statements — none from Kaloya or from any other party. The concrete consequences recorded in the determinations are the erasure direction of 22 May 2026 with a stated effective date of 19 June 2026, the separate interim suspension covering the appeal period, and the earlier interim suspension confirmed in March 2026.

Current Status

Kaloya was struck off the HCPC register by the panel’s decision of 22 May 2026, stated to take effect on 19 June 2026. His MedicWatch profile records erasure 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 striking-off order was accompanied by a separate interim suspension covering the appeal period, meaning the restriction continues through any appeal before the final order takes full effect.

Impact on Their Career/Life

Erasure ended Kaloya’s registration to practise as an operating department practitioner in the UK unless a future restoration application succeeds. The panel’s route to that outcome matters for how the case is understood: the striking-off rested on the abuse of controlled-drugs custody entrusted to his role, repeated across three incidents at two hospitals and directed at anaesthetised patients unable to protect themselves, with the panel treating his later clean tests as irrelevant to what happened in 2023.

Beyond the determinations, the published record contains no information about his circumstances since the decision, and nothing on this page should be read as going beyond it.

Sources

• *MedicWatch, “HCPTS orders Gurprit Kaloya struck off over midazolam misuse at work” (HCPC determination, decision dated 22 May 2026) — source
• *MedicWatch, “Gurprit Kaloya — Interim restrictions imposed” (HCPC determination, decision dated 26 March 2026) — source
• *MedicWatch, “Gurprit Kaloya — Operating department practitioner · Health and Care Professions Council ODP20414” — source