Josep Bofill Blanch
Introduction
Josep Bofill Blanch is a physiotherapist who was registered with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) under registration number PH121712. On 30 July 2025, at the end of a substantive hearing that had run from 22 July, a panel of the Health and Care Professions Tribunal Service (HCPTS) struck him off the register. The panel found that he breached professional boundaries with a service user — contacting her on social media, visiting her home and attempting to give her a gift — that he misused her personal information to find her, that his conduct was sexually motivated, and that he dishonestly failed to notify the HCPC of his workplace suspension. An 18-month interim suspension covers any appeal.
Background Information
The published record identifies Bofill Blanch as a physiotherapist holding HCPC registration PH121712. The determination window does not name an employer or 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
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 form part of this case. The allegation was framed as misconduct from the outset, and the panel found every factual particular proved, with fitness to practise found currently impaired.
The allegation centred on one service user, Service User A. It was alleged that Bofill Blanch breached professional boundaries by contacting her on social media after her vaccination, visiting her home without a clinical reason and attempting to give her a gift; that he inappropriately accessed or used her personal information to find and visit her home; that he dishonestly failed to notify the HCPC of his workplace suspension; and that he acted with sexual motivation. The conduct, if proved, was said to amount to misconduct and impairment. Applying the civil standard, the panel found every factual particular proved.
The panel’s aggravating findings trace the persistence the record describes. The misconduct, though taking place over a short period, began with Bofill Blanch asking Service User A’s colleagues where she worked and about her break times, and continued as he went to great lengths to contact her — through social media and by accessing her personal data — culminating in the visit to her home. The panel found he had failed to acknowledge and stop these persistent breaches of professional boundaries, that his conduct caused Service User A emotional harm, and that it represented an abuse of a position of trust.
Against that, the panel weighed limited mitigation. It recorded that Bofill Blanch has no previous regulatory findings against him and that no prior or subsequent complaints have been made. But it also found he had not demonstrated that he has remediated his failings, had shown only limited insight, and had offered only a limited expression of regret and a limited apology — one that failed to acknowledge the seriousness of the conduct itself. The panel found current impairment on both personal and public grounds, ordered his name removed from the register, and imposed an 18-month interim suspension for any appeal.
Public Reaction and Consequences
The published record contains no press coverage of the hearing and no public statements from Bofill Blanch or any other party. The concrete consequences are the striking-off decision of 30 July 2025 and the 18-month interim suspension covering any appeal. What the panel recorded gives the case its shape: a course of conduct that moved, in the panel’s own findings, from enquiries with a service user’s colleagues to social media contact, then to her personal data, and finally to her doorstep, sustained past the point where he could have stopped. Emotional harm to the service user was found, along with an abuse of a position of trust. The absence of prior findings counted in his favour; the panel’s conclusions on insight, regret and remediation were all adverse.
Current Status
Bofill Blanch was struck off the HCPC register by the panel’s decision of 30 July 2025, with an 18-month interim suspension in place during any appeal period. That interim order keeps the register’s most serious sanction effective while any appeal is decided. 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, including whether any appeal was pursued. The published record discloses no appeal.
Impact on Their Career/Life
Striking off ended Bofill Blanch’s registration and his ability to work as a physiotherapist in the UK unless a future restoration application succeeds. The case illustrates how boundary cases escalate in the record’s own terms: enquiries with colleagues, then social media, then personal data, then a home visit — and how dishonesty towards the regulator, here the failure to disclose a workplace suspension, compounds findings that might otherwise have been contained. Panels weigh insight and remediation heavily, and this panel found little of either. Beyond the determination, the published record contains no information about his circumstances since the decision.