Lee Northcott

Introduction

Lee Northcott is a paramedic who was registered with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) under registration number PA12300. On 3 July 2026, a panel of the Health and Care Professions Tribunal Service (HCPTS) found his fitness to practise impaired and directed that he be struck off the register. The case concerned an assault on a colleague who was an emergency worker — to which he had pleaded guilty in July 2023 — together with threatening and abusive calls and messages directed at colleagues, including a work group chat. The panel found all particulars proved and found serious misconduct both individually and collectively.

Background Information

The published record identifies Northcott only as a paramedic holding HCPC registration PA12300. It does not name an employer, an ambulance service or a region, 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 3 July 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 following a criminal conviction. The assault particular rested on a guilty plea in court in July 2023, which is a matter of criminal record; the threatening-communications findings are regulator findings made on the balance of probabilities. The criminal case ended with a six-month conditional discharge — the panel noted that outcome is distinct from the regulatory sanction.

The allegations before the panel were that Northcott assaulted a colleague who was an emergency worker, resulting in a guilty plea in July 2023, and that he made threatening and abusive calls and messages to colleagues, including in a work group chat.

The panel found all particulars proved and constituted serious misconduct both individually and collectively. It found Northcott’s fitness to practise currently impaired on both the personal and public components. On impairment it found no demonstrated insight, remorse, apology or remediation, and assessed a high risk of repetition. It directed erasure from the register, with a separate interim suspension covering the appeal period for a maximum of 18 months. The panel expressly recorded that the six-month criminal conditional discharge is distinct from the regulatory sanction, which rests on the panel’s own misconduct findings and impairment conclusion.

In aggravation the panel cited the repetition of concerns as a pattern of unacceptable behaviour, the absence of insight, remorse or apology, the lack of remediation, and harm or potential harm to service users.

Public Reaction and Consequences

The published record contains no press coverage of the hearing and no public statements — none from Northcott or from any other party. The concrete consequences recorded in the determinations are the July 2023 criminal plea and conditional discharge, the erasure direction of 3 July 2026, and the separate interim suspension covering the appeal period.

That interim restriction has its own history. At an interim orders hearing on 20 January 2026 — before the substantive hearing — an HCPTS panel conducting an interim order review confirmed or continued an interim suspension. Interim orders are precautionary restrictions; the published interim determination records that they are not findings of fault, and at the time it was made the underlying allegations had not yet been adjudicated.

Current Status

Northcott was struck off the HCPC register by the panel’s decision of 3 July 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 Northcott’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 regulatory outcome was driven by the assault on a colleague underpinned by his own court plea and by the pattern of threatening and abusive communications, with the panel treating the lack of any insight, remorse or remediation as decisive to both impairment and sanction.

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, “Paramedic ordered struck off over assault and threats to colleagues” (HCPC determination, decision dated 3 July 2026) — source
• *MedicWatch, “Lee Northcott — Interim restrictions imposed” (HCPC determination, decision dated 20 January 2026) — source
• *MedicWatch, “Lee Northcott — Paramedic · Health and Care Professions Council PA12300” — source