Parul Shah
Introduction
Parul Shah is a dietitian who was registered with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) under registration number DT03083. On 12 September 2025, a panel of the Health and Care Professions Tribunal Service (HCPTS) — at the end of a substantive hearing that had run from 8 September — struck her off the register, having found serious misconduct rather than lack of competence: repeated, inadequate or poorly recorded dietetic assessments involving ten patients, together with the unsafe handling of a hoist incident that was reported late. Her fitness to practise was found impaired on both personal and public grounds.
Background Information
The published record identifies Shah as a dietitian holding HCPC registration DT03083. It does not name her employer, referring in the determination only to “the Trust”, and this page does not guess at the identity of the NHS trust or describe her training or career. MedicWatch — an independent record service that aggregates publicly published decisions of UK healthcare regulators without editorialising their findings — carries her case with erasure (struck off the register) as her most recent published outcome, decided 12 September 2025, and directs readers to the official HCPC register for her current registration status.
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 first strand of the allegations concerned dietetic assessments. Ms Shah was alleged to have inadequately conducted or recorded assessments for ten patients — including incorrect calculations, incomplete information, inappropriate advice and inadequate follow-up. The panel proved these allegations.
The second strand involved a hoist incident: she was alleged to have put a service user at risk during the use of a hoist, failed to seek trained help or consider an alternative, and delayed reporting the incident. The panel proved the allegations as a whole and characterised the conduct as serious misconduct rather than lack of competence. It found repeated unacceptable practice involving vulnerable service users, a real risk of harm, no meaningful insight or remediation, and a very significant risk of repetition and future harm. It found her fitness to practise impaired on both personal and public grounds, and concluded that no sanction short of striking off would adequately protect the public.
In aggravation, the panel found the failings were serious and exposed particularly vulnerable service users to a real risk of harm; that they continued and were repeated over time, including during the Trust’s capability process; that there was no significant improvement despite that process; that more than four years had passed since her resignation with no intention shown to address the shortcomings; and that there was a lack of apology.
Public Reaction and Consequences
The published record contains no press coverage of the hearing and no public statements from Shah or any other party. The concrete consequence is the striking-off decision of 12 September 2025 — the most serious sanction available to the panel, chosen expressly because lesser measures were judged insufficient. The practical effect is loss of HCPC registration and, with it, the ability to practise as a dietitian in the UK. The record gives no indication of any appeal being pursued, and the aggravating findings — failings repeated even during a formal capability process, then four years of inaction and no apology — stand as the panel’s own assessment of her attitude to the shortcomings.
Current Status
Shah was struck off the HCPC register by the panel’s decision of 12 September 2025. Her MedicWatch profile records erasure as her most recent published outcome, notes her registration status as not yet verified, and directs readers to the official HCPC register for her current position, including whether any appeal was pursued. MedicWatch’s data on the case was last checked on 23 September 2026, by which point the erasure remained her most recent published outcome, with no later decision appearing in the record.
Impact on Their Career/Life
Striking off ended Shah’s registration and her career as a dietitian unless a future restoration application succeeds. The case shows how regulators treat repetition: individual assessment errors might each have been managed through support or a capability process, but the panel’s finding that the failings continued through that very process — and that more than four years passed after her resignation with no intention shown to address them and no apology offered — removed any basis for a lesser sanction. Where service users are particularly vulnerable, a paper trail of incorrect calculations and incomplete records is treated not as administrative untidiness but as a real risk of harm. Beyond the determination, the published record contains no information about her circumstances since the decision.