Keith Roper-Hitches
Introduction
Keith Roper-Hitches is a paramedic who was registered with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) under registration number PA35154. On 3 October 2025, a review panel of the Health and Care Professions Tribunal Service (HCPTS) struck him off the register, finding that his fitness to practise remained impaired following an earlier substantive misconduct finding concerning offensive and inappropriate social media posts. The panel found no evidence of remediation, a continuing lack of insight and an unwillingness to resolve the concerns, and directed his removal from the register.
Background Information
The published record identifies Roper-Hitches as a paramedic holding HCPC registration PA35154. 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 as the 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 3 October 2025 hearing was a review: the relevant substantive misconduct finding had been made at an earlier hearing, and the review panel’s task was whether impairment persisted.
The root of the case lies in that earlier substantive misconduct finding. The record describes the material at its centre as offensive and inappropriate social media posts, including material about police and about people who attempted suicide. The consolidated allegations in the case were broader still: the record lists practising while unregistered, failures to disclose a restraining order and workplace suspensions, alleged dishonesty, clinical knowledge concerns and alleged aggressive conduct. These are stated as matters the consolidated allegations included, and the published record of the review identifies the social media posts as the relevant substantive misconduct finding against which impairment fell to be assessed.
At the review on 3 October 2025, the panel’s conclusions were squarely adverse on remediation and attitude. It found that Roper-Hitches had provided no evidence of remediation, continued to lack insight into his earlier social media misconduct, and expressed contempt for the regulator. His fitness to practise was found to remain impaired on both the personal and the public components.
On sanction, the panel had before it a registrant who, on the record, did not seek a way back. Given his unwillingness to resolve the issues and his stated intention not to return to paramedic practice, the panel ordered striking off — the register’s most serious outcome, resting here not on a contested dispute about the facts but on the absence of any evidence that the earlier findings had been addressed.
Public Reaction and Consequences
The published record contains no press coverage of the hearing and no public statements from Roper-Hitches or any other party. The concrete consequence is the striking-off decision of 3 October 2025, which removes him from the HCPC register and ends his ability to practise as a paramedic in the UK unless a future restoration application succeeds. Because the hearing was a review, there were no new charges to contest in the ordinary sense: the panel was assessing the persistence of impairment after an earlier misconduct finding, and it concluded that nothing in the interim — no remediation, no insight, no engagement — pointed away from removal. The record discloses no appeal and no further proceedings.
Current Status
Roper-Hitches was struck off the HCPC register by the review panel’s decision of 3 October 2025. The published record does not note an interim order alongside the review outcome; the striking-off itself is the operative sanction recorded. 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 Roper-Hitches’s registration and his ability to work as a paramedic in the UK unless a future restoration application succeeds. The case illustrates the review stage of fitness-to-practise proceedings: an earlier misconduct finding over social media material hardened into erasure because the panel found no remediation, continuing lack of insight and contempt for the regulator, with the registrant himself stating he did not intend to return. Beyond the determination, the published record contains no information about his circumstances since the decision.