Rezaul Hossain Razu

Introduction

Rezaul Hossain Razu is a physiotherapist who was registered with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) under registration number PH128530. On 26 May 2026, at the end of a substantive hearing that began and concluded the same day, 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 followed his convictions for two counts of sexual assault recorded in November 2024 — offences that involved two service users and took place during treatment — together with a dishonest failure to tell the HCPC promptly that criminal charges had been brought. He had been subject to an interim suspension order since January 2025, and a separate interim suspension covers the appeal period and any appeal, subject to a maximum of 18 months.

Background Information

The published record identifies Razu only as a physiotherapist holding HCPC registration PH128530. It does not name an employer, a workplace or a region, and it does not describe his training, career or personal history; 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 26 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 regulator’s involvement began well before the substantive hearing. An interim suspension order was made on 19 January 2025, and at a review hearing on 23 March 2026 a panel of the Investigating Committee confirmed it, the order section recording simply that the order “made on 19 January 2025 is confirmed”. The published page for that review does not set out allegation detail; its function was to decide whether the precautionary suspension should continue while the substantive allegations awaited adjudication.

The Controversy or Incident That Led to Their Cancellation

Convictions, not allegations. Rezaul Hossain Razu was convicted of two counts of sexual assault in a criminal court in November 2024. The HCPTS panel then made its own findings on the conviction and misconduct grounds. Presumption of innocence does not arise: these are recorded convictions, not unproven charges.

The matters before the panel arose from two connected facts. The first was Razu’s convictions for two counts of sexual assault, recorded in November 2024; the offences involved two service users and were committed during the course of their treatment — patients who had come to him for care, not encounters outside his professional life. The second was his dishonest failure to tell the HCPC promptly that criminal charges had been brought, a concealment of the charging decision that left the regulator and the public unaware of the criminal proceedings while he remained on the register.

The panel proved the convictions on the conviction ground and found the dishonest failure to notify the HCPC of the charging decision established on both the conviction and misconduct grounds. It found Razu’s fitness to practise currently impaired on both the personal and public components. In assessing sanction it identified no evidence of remediation and a high risk of repetition, and it concluded that striking off was the appropriate outcome, with a separate interim suspension order to cover the appeal period and any appeal, subject to 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 Razu, the service users involved or campaign groups. The concrete consequences are the convictions themselves and the erasure direction decided on 26 May 2026, capping a suspension that had kept him out of practice since January 2025. The findings underpinning the outcome were as follows:

convictions for two counts of sexual assault recorded in November 2024, with the offences involving two service users during treatment;
a dishonest failure to tell the HCPC promptly that criminal charges had been brought, found established on both the conviction and misconduct grounds;
current impairment found on both the personal and public components;
no evidence of remediation and a high risk of repetition; and
striking off, with a separate interim suspension during the appeal period and any appeal, subject to a maximum of 18 months.

The convictions were preceded by the precautionary route described above: the interim suspension made on 19 January 2025 and confirmed by the Investigating Committee on 23 March 2026 meant Razu was suspended from practice for the sixteen months before the substantive panel reached its decision.

Current Status

Razu was struck off the HCPC register by the panel’s decision of 26 May 2026, with a separate interim suspension in force during the appeal period and any appeal, subject to the 18-month maximum. 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 sexual-assault convictions are criminal matters. The published record does not state the sentencing court, the length of any custodial or other sentence, or the exact dates of the offences beyond November 2024; those details are not guessed at here. The regulatory sanction is erasure, and the panel’s conclusion of a high risk of repetition followed from the absence of any evidence of remediation.

Impact on Their Career/Life

Erasure ended Razu’s registration to practise as a physiotherapist in the UK unless a future restoration application succeeds. The panel’s route to that outcome is recorded in its findings: sexual assaults committed against service users during their treatment struck at the trust at the centre of the physiotherapist–patient relationship, and the subsequent dishonest failure to disclose the charging decision promptly to the regulator compounded the harm to public confidence. With no evidence of remediation and a high risk of repetition found, no lesser sanction is recorded as having been considered appropriate.

Beyond the determination, 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, “HCPTS orders Rezaul Hossain Razu struck off after sexual-assault convictions” (HCPC determination, decision dated 26 May 2026) — source
*MedicWatch, “Interim order imposed — Rezaul Hossain Razu” (HCPC determination, decision dated 23 March 2026) — source
*MedicWatch, “Rezaul Hossain Razu — Physiotherapist · Health and Care Professions Council PH128530” — source