Phillip F Hopkins

Introduction

Phillip F Hopkins is a radiographer who was registered with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) under registration number RA39358. On 4 December 2025, at a review hearing, a panel of the Health and Care Professions Tribunal Service (HCPTS) directed that his name be struck from the register, with effect from 12 December 2025. The direction closed a case that had begun with a finding that he attended work as a radiographer while under the influence of alcohol in February 2022, after two periods of suspension had failed to produce any engagement with the regulator.

Background Information

The published record identifies Hopkins as a radiographer holding HCPC registration RA39358. The record does not name an employer or describe his training or career, and this page does not guess at them. The full particulars of the original allegation are not set out in the published determination window; what is known of the case’s substance comes through the review determinations and MedicWatch’s editorial summary of the June 2025 hearing. That summary records that Hopkins had been found to have attended work while under the influence of alcohol in February 2022, that the original allegation also referred to a health condition, and that impairment was alleged by reason of misconduct and/or health. MedicWatch, an independent service that aggregates publicly published decisions of UK healthcare regulators without editorialising their findings, carries his case with erasure (struck off the register) as his most recent published outcome and notes his registration status as not yet verified.

The Controversy or Incident That Led to Their Cancellation

Findings at the civil standard. Nothing here is a criminal conviction. The findings below were made by a regulatory panel on the balance of probabilities, and they are attributed to the panels that made them. The health dimension is treated as what the record says it is: part of the allegation, not an added accusation.

The foundation of the case was the panel finding, in the original proceedings, that Hopkins had attended work as a radiographer while under the influence of alcohol in February 2022. The original allegation also referred to a health condition, with his fitness to practise alleged to be impaired by reason of misconduct and/or health. The panel found his fitness to practise impaired on both the personal and public components and imposed a suspension order for twelve months.

The first review hearing, on 5 June 2025, is where the case took its decisive shape. The reviewing panel noted that no information had been submitted by Hopkins, that he had not attended the previous hearing, and that under the HCPTS review framework there is a persuasive burden on the registrant to show he has addressed his impairment. It received no evidence of changed circumstances, insight, remediation, health progress or updated knowledge and skills. It found a continuing real risk of repetition and impairment on both personal and public grounds, and extended the suspension for six months — recording that this would protect the public and give Hopkins a further opportunity to engage and provide evidence. The panel also gave guidance as to what might assist subsequent review panels.

The second review, on 4 December 2025, changed the outcome rather than the reasoning. With the record still showing no engagement, the panel directed that Hopkins be struck from the register, the removal to take effect from 12 December 2025.

Public Reaction and Consequences

The published record contains no press coverage of any of the three hearings and no public statements from Hopkins or any other party. The concrete consequences are those the record itself shows: a twelve-month suspension, a six-month extension decided without his participation, and finally erasure. What stands out in the sequence is how little of it required new findings. Each review panel exercised its own judgement on current impairment, but the material before them never changed: no submissions, no attendance, no evidence of insight or remediation. Under the review framework, the burden sat with Hopkins to demonstrate he had addressed the impairment, and across eighteen months he provided nothing that would discharge it. The striking-off was less a new judgement about February 2022 than the administrative end-point of that silence.

Current Status

Hopkins was struck off the HCPC register by the panel’s decision of 4 December 2025, with the removal taking effect from 12 December 2025. He is removed from the register and may not practise as a radiographer in the UK unless a future restoration application succeeds; an erasure of this kind is reviewable after a minimum of five years. His MedicWatch profile records erasure (struck off the register) 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.

Impact on Their Career/Life

Striking off ended Hopkins’s registration and his ability to work as a radiographer in the UK unless restoration succeeds. The case shows the specific mechanics of the HCPTS review system: a sanction order is not a sentence that simply runs off. Each review asks what the registrant has done since, and a registrant who offers nothing converts a temporary, recoverable suspension into permanent removal. The alcohol-related finding at the centre of the case was framed by the regulator as one of impairment — with a health condition also alleged — rather than as a criminal matter, and the panels’ concern throughout was the untreated risk it implied: no insight, no remediation, a continuing real risk of repetition. A different path was visibly available at each stage; the record shows it was not taken. Beyond the determinations, the published record contains no information about his circumstances since the decision.

Sources

• *MedicWatch, “Phillip F Hopkins — Struck off the register · 4 December 2025” (HCPC determination, review hearing, erasure effective 12 December 2025) — source
• *MedicWatch, “HCPTS panel extends Phillip Hopkins’s suspension for six months” (HCPC determination, first review hearing, decision dated 5 June 2025) — source
• *MedicWatch, “Phillip F Hopkins — Radiographer · Health and Care Professions Council RA39358” — source