Soraya Jurado Gonzalez
Introduction
Soraya Jurado Gonzalez is a physiotherapist whose January 2026 erasure from the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) register became one of the regulator’s starkest registration-fraud cases: a panel found she had amended the contents of official documents that purported to have been completed by her supervisor, then submitted them to secure her own registration .
Background Information
Internationally trained physiotherapists enter the HCPC register through a route that requires documentary proof of their education and supervised adaptation period — certificates of completion, period-of-adaptation assessments, and supervision feedback forms completed by a witness. Jurado Gonzalez came through that route, and her registration documents included a set of papers dated 12 May 2023: an HCPC certificate of completion, a period of adaptation assessment form, and a supervision feedback form, each purporting to have been completed by a witness referred to in the case as Witness 1. The regulator’s case was that she had edited those documents herself before submission .
The Controversy or Incident That Led to Their Cancellation
Struck off. The panel found her entry onto the register was fraudulently procured and struck her off on 14 January 2026.
The allegation was framed in two limbs: that her entry onto the register was fraudulently procured, in that she amended the contents of the scheduled documents purporting to have been completed by Witness 1 and submitted them to the HCPC; and, alternatively, that her entry was incorrectly made on the same facts. By the hearing she had effectively conceded the case: she made admissions in a Notice to Admit Facts and Witness Statements, and signed a Consent Order, with her representative at the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy confirming her position to the hearings service by email on 6 January 2026 .
The evidence put flesh on the mechanics. Witness 1 told the panel she was shown a “supervision feedback form” dated 19 April 2023 by the HCPC — a document the panel found the registrant had amended, so that its contents no longer reflected what the witness had completed. On that basis the panel found the first particular — fraudulent procurement of her entry — proved, and found the alternative particular proved as well. The panel directed that her name be struck from the register .
Public Reaction and Consequences
The amendment itself was documentary: the consent order recorded that “The Parties agree that: 1. The allegation against the Registrant be amended to read as follows”, and the panel noted she had made admissions to both the original allegation and the proposed amended version. The final hearing ran from 12 to 14 January 2026 and proceeded in her absence, with her consent conveyed through her representative. Because the admissions came through formal notice and a signed consent order, the panel accepted there was no disadvantage in hearing the case without her. The HCPC successfully applied to amend the allegation before findings, and the panel’s determinations on both particulars — fraudulent procurement and incorrect entry — were recorded in the published decision. The striking-off removes her from the register she had obtained through the falsified documents .
Current Status
Jurado Gonzalez was struck off the HCPC register with effect from the January 2026 decision. The erasure is recorded in public listings of regulator decisions, and the determination — including the admissions and the panel’s findings on both particulars — remains published on the hearings record . No appeal has been reported.
Impact on Their Career/Life
Registration fraud cases are the regulator’s purest integrity cases: no patient was harmed by a falsified supervision form, but the register itself was. The panel’s findings describe a clinician who solved the obstacle of incomplete paperwork not by completing her adaptation honestly but by editing the paperwork — a supervision feedback form, a certificate of completion, an assessment form — until it said what she needed. The consent-order route then shortened the process but confirmed the outcome. For overseas applicants, the case shows both sides of the adaptation route: the documents are checked, the named witnesses are contacted, and an amended form is not an administrative shortcut but the end of a UK career before it begins .