Martin Duxbury
Introduction
Martin Duxbury is a radiographer who was registered with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) under registration number RA32676. On 2 July 2026, at the end of a substantive hearing that had begun on 15 June 2026, a panel of the Health and Care Professions Tribunal Service (HCPTS) found his fitness to practise impaired by misconduct and directed that he be struck off the register. The case combined sexually motivated communications and arrangements for a sexual encounter with a junior colleague, professional-boundary breaches, and racially derogatory language towards a colleague. Several other allegations — including that he blocked a colleague’s exit — were not proved.
Background Information
The published record identifies Duxbury as a radiographer holding HCPC registration RA32676 whose conduct occurred in a radiotherapy service, where colleagues affected by his behaviour were his juniors. 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 2 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, 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 prove that Duxbury blocked a colleague’s exit, its allegations about a second colleague, or one leave-allocation particular.
The allegations concerned unprofessional communications and professional-boundary breaches towards colleagues; sexually explicit messages and arrangements for a sexual encounter; racially derogatory language; inappropriate allocation of annual leave; and aggressive conduct towards another colleague.
The panel found misconduct in the unprofessional communications, the boundary breaches, the racially derogatory language and the sexually motivated conduct towards a colleague, finding that saying a hotel had been booked was proved although the allegation concerned the statement rather than an actual booking. It found blocking a colleague’s exit, all allegations about the interaction with the second colleague, and one leave-allocation particular not proved. It found current impairment on both the personal and public components, insufficient meaningful insight and remediation, and a real risk of repetition, and directed striking off effective after the 28-day appeal period, with a separate interim suspension of up to 18 months pending appeal.
In aggravation the panel found the conduct was predatory towards both colleagues, who were his juniors, with a clear imbalance of power and abuse of his professional position; that he had already been the subject of disciplinary action over the first colleague in 2021 but entered into inappropriate behaviour towards the second in 2023; and that his actions had a wider harmful impact on other colleagues and the radiotherapy service. Mitigation was limited: no previous fitness to practise history, and qualified admissions in his June 2026 submissions that the panel found showed no awareness of the effects of his actions on others.
Public Reaction and Consequences
The published record contains no press coverage of the hearing and no public statements — none from Duxbury or from any other party. The concrete consequences recorded in the determinations are the erasure direction of 2 July 2026, effective after the 28-day appeal window, and the separate interim suspension covering any appeal. The panel also recorded the 2021 internal disciplinary action that preceded the 2023 conduct found proved.
Current Status
Duxbury was struck off the HCPC register by the panel’s decision of 2 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 of up to 18 months pending appeal, meaning the restriction continues through any appeal before the final order takes full effect.
Impact on Their Career/Life
Erasure ended Duxbury’s registration to practise as a radiographer in the UK unless a future restoration application succeeds. The panel’s route to that outcome matters for how the case is understood: it found the sexual conduct toward a junior colleague predatory and set against an earlier disciplinary outcome for similar behaviour, while expressly acquitting him of the blocked-exit and second-colleague allegations — the record punishes what was proved, not what was not.
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.