Mamady Konate
Introduction
Mamady Konate is an operating department practitioner (ODP) who was registered with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) under registration number ODP040434. On 29 May 2026, at the end of a substantive hearing that had begun on 26 May 2026, a panel of the Health and Care Professions Tribunal Service (HCPTS) found his fitness to practise impaired by serious misconduct and directed that he be struck off the register. The case concerned a single incident: sexual activity with a colleague in an operating theatre during working hours on 30 June 2023, which the panel found compromised the sterile area and created a risk of cross-infection to patients. The panel expressly did not charge or determine whether the activity lacked consent.
Background Information
The published record identifies Konate only as an operating department practitioner holding HCPC registration ODP040434. It does not name an employer or a hospital, 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 29 May 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, 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 appear in the published record. The panel expressly did NOT charge or determine lack of consent, and found no evidence of actual patient harm.
The allegation before the panel was a single particular: that Konate engaged in sexual activity with a colleague in an operating theatre during working hours on 30 June 2023.
The panel proved both elements of the allegation and found serious misconduct and current impairment on both the personal and public components. It found the activity compromised the sterile area of an operating theatre and created a risk of cross-infection to patients, while recording that there was no evidence of actual patient harm, and that lack of consent was not charged or determined. The panel found limited insight, no demonstrated remediation and a high risk of repetition, and directed striking off with a separate interim suspension covering the appeal period and any appeal, for a maximum of 18 months.
Public Reaction and Consequences
The published record contains no press coverage of the hearing and no public statements — none from Konate or from any other party. The concrete consequences recorded in the determination are the erasure direction of 29 May 2026 and the separate interim suspension covering the appeal period, capped at 18 months.
Current Status
Konate was struck off the HCPC register by the panel’s decision of 29 May 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 Konate’s registration to practise as an operating department practitioner in the UK unless a future restoration application succeeds. The panel’s route to that outcome matters for how the case is understood: a single incident, with no patient harmed and consent never in issue before the panel, still supported erasure because the setting — a sterile operating theatre during working hours, with anaesthetised patients dependent on the integrity of that environment — made the conduct incompatible with continued registration in the panel’s assessment. The panel’s finding of limited insight and no demonstrated remediation, with a high risk of repetition, completed the route from one proved particular to the register’s most serious outcome.
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.