Kyle Harris
Introduction
Kyle Harris is a former radiographer who was struck off the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) register on 1 October 2026 after a Conduct and Competence Committee panel found he had sent a series of abusive messages to Medical Sciences Secretariat staff and had lied to a New Zealand regulator about his disciplinary history. Over January and February 2024, Harris sent messages including obscenity-laced insults and a wish that an earthquake would collapse an office with staff inside it. The panel also found that in September 2023, applying for restoration to the register of the New Zealand Medical Radiation Technologies Board, he falsely confirmed he had never faced disciplinary proceedings. It found dishonesty at the heart of the case and struck him off.
Background Information
Harris was registered with the HCPC as a radiographer, a regulated profession covering the operators of diagnostic imaging and radiotherapy equipment in hospitals and clinics. His case had an international dimension: alongside his UK registration, he had been involved with the New Zealand Medical Radiation Technologies Board, the trans-Tasman regulator for the profession. In September 2023 he applied to that board for restoration to its register, an application that required him to disclose any disciplinary history. The messages at the centre of the UK case were sent between 26 January 2024 and 1 March 2024 to Medical Sciences Secretariat staff, the administrative service that handles professional-examination and administrative processes, and others. An interim order had been in place since December 2024. His final hearing ran over four days from 28 September to 1 October 2026, held virtually before a Conduct and Competence Committee panel.
The Controversy or Incident That Led to Their Cancellation
Adjudicated finding, not an allegation. A HCPC Conduct and Competence Committee panel made these findings in October 2026 on the balance of probabilities. They are civil-standard regulatory determinations; the record covered here involved no criminal proceedings.
The schedule of messages found proved included, on 26 January 2024, “you guys really are a bunch of dheads”, and on 29 January 2024 a run of messages including “Shite behaviour, shite service from Shite people at nzmrt”, “Hey douchebag”, a complaint that “It takes literally a week to get a reply and it’s some pillock who asks for something I have already provided”, a line telling staff it was nice that they were inclusive “but obviously you aren’t mentally competent to understand” a refusal, and the message “Stop messaging me. I hope the earthquake shallows your office with you in it.” On 1 March 2024 he wrote “My response is you can go f yourself.” The panel also found that on or around 11 September 2023 he provided inaccurate information to the New Zealand board in his restoration application by confirming he had not been subject to any disciplinary proceedings, when he knew he was required to disclose disciplinary proceedings by his former employers and had sought to conceal them. The panel found the conduct dishonest and the dishonesty particularly grave: it “struck at the heart of the honesty and integrity required of a registered Radiographer.” Balancing proportionality against public protection, the panel imposed a Striking Off Order.
Public Reaction and Consequences
The panel directed the Registrar to strike Harris from the register, holding that the need to protect the public and uphold the public interest outweighed the potential professional, reputational and financial impact on him. Its sanction reasoning emphasized that his dishonesty undermined public confidence in the profession and in the HCPC as regulator. The full decision, including the dated schedule of messages and the panel’s treatment of the New Zealand disclosure, is published on the HCPTS hearings site. He shares a surname with other people covered on this site, including a banned teacher and a struck-off solicitor, but is not the same person as any of them. No criminal charge arose from the record covered here; both the messages and the false disclosure were regulatory findings.
Current Status
Harris was struck off on 1 October 2026, the final day of the four-day virtual hearing. He is no longer a registered radiographer in the UK and cannot practise under the protected title while the striking off order stands, with an interim order having restricted his practice since December 2024. The false-disclosure finding complicates his position with the New Zealand board as well, since the UK panel found the restoration application there was itself dishonest. No public response from Harris is recorded in the published decision materials. Any return to registration would require a restoration application years after the order, with the dishonesty findings standing against it.
Impact on Their Career/Life
The striking off ends his radiography career in the UK while the order stands, and the combination of findings — abuse of administrative staff charged with handling his professional paperwork, plus a lie to a second country’s regulator about his disciplinary record — marks him as a cross-border registrational risk rather than a single-jurisdiction case. For regulators, the decision documents how disclosure obligations in restoration applications are checked against the other jurisdiction’s records and how a false answer there becomes a UK dishonesty particular. For radiography employers, it shows the HCPC treating sustained abusive communications with the same terminal seriousness as clinical failings, on the reasoning that integrity findings of this kind strike at the core of what registration certifies.
Sources
- HCPTS, “Mr Kyle Harris — Final Hearing, Conduct and Competence Committee, Struck off,” October 2026. source