Yannek Benson
Introduction
Yannek Benson is a paramedic who was registered with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) under registration number PA47587. On 29 May 2026, at the end of a substantive hearing that had begun on 27 May 2026, a panel of the Health and Care Professions Tribunal Service (HCPTS) found his fitness to practise impaired by misconduct and directed that he be struck off the register. The case combined multiple findings of serious dishonesty — including false claims about his paramedic experience made to gain a more senior position — with clinical failings on the road, including driving without adequate rest and at excessive speed, and communications intended to influence a witness. Several other allegations were not proved or were discontinued.
Background Information
The published record identifies Benson only as a paramedic holding HCPC registration PA47587. It does not name an employer or an ambulance service, and it does not describe his training or career; 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 29 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 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 panel expressly did NOT prove the arrival-time-message and billing allegations, and a separate employer-disclosure allegation was discontinued.
The allegations concerned false claims about his paramedic experience and an inaccurate CV; fatigue and speeding; unreturned company equipment; invoicing; confidentiality; medication and other clinical failures; and inappropriate communications with a witness. A separate allegation about disclosure to Medic Now was discontinued before the remaining charges were renumbered.
The panel found misconduct in the dishonest claims about his experience and about a colleague’s training; clinical failures including medication outside his scope; driving without adequate rest and at excessive speed; retention of company equipment; confidentiality breaches; and communications intended to influence a witness. The alleged inaccurate arrival-time message and additional-hours billing were not proved, and the associated dishonesty was therefore not established. The panel found current impairment on both the personal and public components, limited insight and remediation, and a risk of repetition, directing striking off with a separate interim suspension pending appeal for a maximum of 18 months.
In aggravation the panel found the dishonesty was not a single instance but a repeated pattern; that the clinical failings carried the potential to put service users at risk, including through the potential administering of controlled drugs; that the public was placed at risk by driving without adequate rest and recklessly at speed; and that there was a breach of trust in exaggerating his experience to gain a more senior position while not returning company equipment. Mitigation covered his admissions to some particulars at the outset and the absence of previous fitness to practise findings, but the panel found his insight limited and his remediation not demonstrated.
Public Reaction and Consequences
The published record contains no press coverage of the hearing and no public statements — none from Benson or from any other party. The concrete consequences recorded in the determination are the erasure direction of 29 May 2026 and the separate interim suspension covering the appeal period, capped at 18 months.
Current Status
Benson was struck off the HCPC register by the panel’s decision of 29 May 2026. 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 striking-off 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
Erasure ended Benson’s registration to practise as a paramedic in the UK unless a future restoration application succeeds. The panel’s route to that outcome matters for how the case is understood: what weighed most was the pattern — repeated dishonesty reaching from his CV into a senior appointment, layered over clinical and road-safety failings — while the panel squarely recorded that the billing and arrival-time allegations failed and one count was discontinued, so the record punishes what was proved, not what was not.
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.