Guy Carman
Introduction
Guy Carman is a paramedic who was registered with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) under registration number PA32579. On 22 January 2026, at the end of a hearing that had begun on 12 January 2026, a panel of the Health and Care Professions Tribunal Service (HCPTS) directed that he be removed from the register. The panel found proved, on his own unequivocal admissions, that he had misused controlled drugs belonging to his Trust by self-administering morphine, and that he had continued to work and drive an ambulance after doing so.
Background Information
The published record identifies Carman only as a paramedic holding HCPC registration PA32579. It does not name the ambulance service trust that employed him, and it does not describe his training or career; this page does not guess at any of them. The facts were established through his own admissions: during a formal investigatory interview with his employer in April 2023, and in a ‘statement of admission’ contained in an email he sent to the HCPC dated 14 December 2025. His MedicWatch profile records his most recent published outcome as striking off, decided on 22 January 2026, 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 — and rest substantially on Carman’s own admissions. They are regulator findings, not criminal convictions, and no criminal proceedings appear in the published record.
The panel found the first particulars proved on Carman’s admissions, accepting that those admissions were unequivocal and not made for reasons of expediency. It concluded it was more likely than not that he misused controlled drugs belonging to the Trust by self-administering morphine, and that he continued to work and drive an ambulance after self-administering the drug. The conduct at the centre of the case was therefore not an error of clinical judgment but the use of a controlled drug from his employer’s stock, followed by frontline emergency work while under its influence.
The published determination records the panel’s direction of removal from the register at the conclusion of the final hearing in January 2026. The combination the panel found proved — theft-adjacent misuse of a controlled drug from Trust stock together with continued emergency driving and clinical work after self-administration — placed the case in the category of conduct that puts both patients and the public at direct risk, the standard route to erasure in the regulator’s sanctions framework.
Public Reaction and Consequences
The published record contains no press coverage of the hearing and no public statements — none from Carman or from any other party. The concrete consequences recorded in the determination are the removal direction of 22 January 2026; the timeline the record does show — an employer investigation interview in April 2023 and a final hearing beginning 12 January 2026 — illustrates how long the path from workplace disclosure to erasure can run.
Current Status
Carman was removed from the HCPC register by the panel’s decision of 22 January 2026. His MedicWatch profile records striking off 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
Removal ended Carman’s registration to practise as a paramedic in the UK unless a future restoration application succeeds. The panel’s route to that outcome matters for how the case is understood: the case was proved through Carman’s own admissions at two separate points — to his employer in 2023 and to the regulator in December 2025 — and the panel expressly found those admissions unequivocal and not expedient. Admission did not save the registration, because the proved facts involved controlled drugs and continued emergency work: a combination the regulatory framework treats as incompatible with any registration that permits lone access to patients and driving under emergency conditions.
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.