Rodrigo J Cabral Rodrigues
Introduction
Rodrigo J Cabral Rodrigues is a radiographer who was registered with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) under registration number RA75143. On 18 May 2026, at the end of a hearing that had begun on 5 May 2026, a panel of the Health and Care Professions Tribunal Service (HCPTS) found his fitness to practise impaired and directed that he be removed from the register. The panel found persistent sexual misconduct towards a colleague — including sexual assault, intimidation and abuse of his senior position — and concluded the conduct was fundamentally incompatible with continued registration.
Background Information
The published record identifies Rodrigues only as a radiographer holding HCPC registration RA75143. 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. The hearing itself ran over two weeks — beginning on 5 May 2026 and finishing on 18 May 2026 — the kind of duration typical of cases where multiple incidents are alleged and witnesses including colleagues are called to give evidence. The allegation set put before the panel covered repeated sexual comments and conduct, professional-boundary failures, and sexual motivation. His MedicWatch profile records his most recent published outcome as removal from the register, decided on 18 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 — including the sexual-assault finding — 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 allegations concerned repeated sexual comments and conduct towards colleagues, failures to maintain professional boundaries, sexual motivation, and misconduct. The panel’s approach to sanction reflected the nature of what it had found: sexual misconduct persisted across encounters, directed at a colleague, and weaponised the seniority he held over her.
The panel found persistent sexual misconduct, including sexual assault, intimidation and abuse of a senior position. It characterised the conduct as fundamentally incompatible with registration, ordered removal from the register, and imposed an interim suspension covering the appeal period, subject to a maximum of 18 months. Removal is the regulator’s most serious sanction short of the rare cases where other orders apply; the panel’s incompatibility finding meant no lesser outcome was considered adequate.
Public Reaction and Consequences
The published record contains no press coverage of the hearing and no public statements — none from Rodrigues or from any other party. The concrete consequences recorded in the determination are the removal direction of 18 May 2026 and the separate interim suspension covering the appeal period, capped at 18 months.
Current Status
Rodrigues was removed from the HCPC register by the panel’s decision of 18 May 2026. His MedicWatch profile records removal 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 removal 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
Removal ended Rodrigues’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: this was not a single boundary lapse but a finding of persistent sexual misconduct that included sexual assault and the exploitation of seniority over a colleague, and the panel’s incompatibility conclusion placed the case in the category where the regulator’s own published reasoning treats continued registration as untenable.
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.