Media Schedule of Fitness to Practise Hearings Monday 24 February

Media Schedule of Fitness to Practise Hearings
Monday 24 February – Friday 28 February 2014
All hearings begin at 10.00am and are open to the press and public unless otherwise
stated. For further details about our fitness to practise hearings, see the HCPC website:
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Date:
Monday 24 – Thursday 27 February 2014
Name of Registrant:
Artemis Toouli
Profession:
Social worker in England
Hearing Location:
Health and Care Professions Council, Park House,
184 Kennington Park Road, London, SE11 4BU
Committee:
Conduct and Competence Committee
Allegation:
Whilst employed by Integrated Services Programme as a social worker between 4
October 2004 and 8 February 2013, you:
1. Did not manage supervision sessions with foster carers effectively in that the
sessions were excessively long;
2. Did not offer appropriate support and guidance to foster carers;
3. Behaved in an intimidating and aggressive manner towards foster carers;
4. Did not maintain appropriate boundaries in that you discussed personal matters
during supervision sessions with foster carers;
5. On 3 May 2012, you were advised of possible child protection concerns made by
Child A against foster carer A and you:
(a) Did not contact the Local Authority by telephone to advise them of the concerns as
you were required to do; and
(b) Advised foster carer A that Child A had made allegations about her and gave her
details of the allegations before it was reported to the Local Authority Social Worker;
6. On 15 November 2012, signed a HCPC renewal form confirming that there were no
changes to your good character of which you had not advised the HCPC, when you had
not disclosed that you received a First Written Warning at a disciplinary hearing held on
22 August 2012;
7. Your actions set out in paragraph 6 were dishonest.
8. The matters set out in paragraphs 1 – 5 constitute isconduct and/or lack of
competence.
9. The matters set out in paragraphs 6 and 7 constitute misconduct.
10. By reason of your misconduct and/or lack of competence, your fitness to practise is
impaired.
Date:
Monday 24 – Thursday February 2014
Name of Registrant:
Andre Cooper
Profession:
Hearing aid dispenser
Hearing Location:
Health and Care Professions Council, Park House,
184 Kennington Park Road, London, SE11 4BU
Committee:
Conduct and Competence Committee
Allegation:
During the course of your employment as a Hearing Aid Dispenser with David Ormerod
Hearing Centres between 29 June 2009 and 12 July 2012, you:
1. prescribed client A with Phonak CertenaArt P dAZ BTE RIGHT for which she paid
£1395.00 but dispensed a demonstration aid
2. dispensed an Alera 9 sn 1026845038 hearing aid to client B, which was a stock aid
supplied to one of GNs field representatives, and you:
a) did not enter the £750 paid by Client B onto the payment record (Sound)
3. prescribed client C 2 x Micro Exelia for which she paid £3000 but dispensed 2 x
Phonak Certena HS VZ 1008d505 d504 which retail at £1795
4. dispensed the Micro Exelia LEFT aid prescribed for client C to client D
5. sold client E a Unitron passport power cic custom hearing aid for £175.00: and
a) this hearing aid was one returned for repair by client F;
b) this aid was moulded for client F's ear;
c) the sale was not recorded on Sound; and
d) you failed to provide client E with a receipt.
6. Prescribed client F with Unitron passport power cic custom hearing aid but dispensed
a demo aid cic and when this was addressed provided her with a further demo aid,
namely, 0826251543 dot 30.
7. did not provide client G with the hearing aid she had paid £895 for, and:
a) supplied client G with demonstration aids.
8. sold hearing aids to client H for £2442, and:
a) accepted a cheque made payable in your name;
b) did not enter this sale onto Sound;
c) provided one aid where the serial number had been scratched off; and
d) provided one demonstration aid.
9. dispensed 2 x GNReSound Essence Lite BTE aids to client I for which she paid
£1395, and:
a) these aids were assigned to and ordered for client J;
b) should have retailed at £495.
10. dispensed hearing aids to client K, and:
a) did not keep records of this;
b) did not enter payment of £495 for the sids onto Sound; and
c) provided aids to Client K where the serial number had been scratched off.
11. prescribed client L 2 x Phonak Audeo S SMARTV hearing aids for which he paid
£2733.47 but dispensed 2 x Micro Savia Art, and you:
a) did not enter the payment onto Sound.
12. prescribed client J 2 x Phonak Ambra 10 Petite hearing aids and accepted a £500
deposit, and you:
a) entered on the internal computer system that client J had changed his order to 2 x
GNReSound Essence which retail at £495, and
i) supplied client J with 2 x Phonak Ambra but with different serial numbers to those
originally ordered;
ii) took further payment of £2193.49 from client J; and
iii) failed to credit this sum onto Sound.
13. Your actions at paragraphs 1, 2 a, 3, 5 a – d, 6, 7 a, 8 a – d, 9 a – b, 10 a – c, 11 a
and 12 a i – iii were dishonest.
14. The matters described in paragraphs 1 - 13 constitute misconduct.
15. By reason of your misconduct your fitness to practise is impaired.
Date:
Tuesday 25 – Friday 28 February 2014
Name of Registrant:
Stephen Muldoon
Profession:
Paramedic
Hearing Location:
Novotel Glasgow, 181 Pitt Street, Glasgow, G2 4DT
Committee:
Conduct and Competence Committee
Allegation:
During the course of your employment as a paramedic with the Scottish Ambulance
Service, on 13 August 2012:
1. After administering morphine to patient A you:
a) left patient A in the care of a technician while you drove the ambulance to the
hospital;
b) instructed the technician to administer a second dose of morphine to patient A when
she was not qualified to do so;
c) failed to seek the consent of Patient A to administer the second dose of morphine;
and
d) asked the technician to change the EPRF to show that you had attended to patient A.
2. You allowed patient B, a patient with positive ST elevation myocardial infarction to
walk down a flight of stairs to the ambulance.
3. Your actions as set out in paragraph 1d were dishonest.
4. The matters described in paragraphs 1, 2 and 3 constitute misconduct and/or lack of
competence.
5. By reason of your misconduct and/or lack of competence your fitness to practise is
impaired.
Date:
Tuesday 25 – Thursday 27 February 2014
Name of Registrant:
Anita Singini
Profession:
Chiropodist / podiatrist
Hearing Location:
Health and Care Professions Council, Park House,
184 Kennington Park Road, London, SE11 4BU
Committee:
Conduct and Competence Committee
Allegation:
Whilst registered as a chiropodist / podiatrist and working as a self-employed cover at
Feet First Podiatry and Chiropody Clinic from 20 April 2012 to 30 May 2012, you:
1) Treated Patient A on 21 May 2012, and:
a) you did not take a complete medical history of Patient A in the first appointment;
b) your treatment note of Patient A was inadequate and contained inaccuracies;
c) you did not answer Patient A’s question about the podiatry treatment you were
carrying out; and
d) your treatment caused an infection to Patient A’s foot.
2) Made inaccurate notes, in that they did not reflect the events and treatments you had
undertaken.
3) The matters described in paragraphs 1 to 2 constitute misconduct and /or lack of
competence.
4) By reason of that misconduct and/or lack of competence your fitness to practise is
impaired.
Date:
Thursday 27 February 2014, 9:30 – 11:30
Name of Registrant:
Karl Pharaoh
Profession:
Paramedic
Hearing Location:
Health and Care Professions Council, Park House,
184 Kennington Park Road, London, SE11 4BU
Committee:
Conduct and Competence Committee
Allegation:
On 26 July 2011 you appeared before North Tyneside Magistrates’ Court;
1. You were convicted for the offences of:
a. Assault by beating on 26 June 2011
b. Breach of a Non-molestation Order, dated 6 June 2011 on 26 June 2011;
2. For the offence at 1a. you were sentenced to the following;
a. A Community Order with a supervision requirement for a period of 12 months and
you were ordered to pay compensation of £100 and court costs of £85;
3. For the offence at 1b. you were sentenced to the following:
a. A Community Order with a supervision requirement for a period of 12 months.
4. By reason of your conviction your fitness to practise as a paramedic is impaired.
Date:
Friday 28 February 2014, 10:00 – 12:00
Name of Registrant:
Clare Linda Bowthorpe-Weller
Profession:
Social worker in England
Hearing Location:
Health and Care Professions Council, Park House,
184 Kennington Park Road, London, SE11 4BU
Committee:
Conduct and Competence Committee
Allegation:
During the course of your employment with Oxfordshire County Council between
September 2009 and January 2012 you:
1. Did not fully complete and/or ensure Care Programme Approach (CPA) reviews were
kept up to date for 15 service users on your caseload.
2. Did not fully complete and/or ensure Risk Assessments (RA) were kept up to date for
15 service users on your caseload.
3. Did not adequately record contact, or attempted contact, with patients on
approximately 71 occasions.
4. Did not maintain regular contact with service users.
5. On 12 May 2011, when contacted by a staff member at Place B and informed that
Service User A had arrived in a distressed state, you told the staff member that you
were unable to attend and;
a). told your manager that you had gone to see Service User A but that by the time you
arrived Service User A had left, or words to that affect, which was untrue.
6. On or around 13 May 2011, you fabricated visits to Service User A by creating three
pre-dated letters.
7. Your conduct in paragraphs 5 and/or 6 was dishonest.
8. The matters set out in paragraphs 1 - 6 constitute misconduct and/or lack of
competence.
9. The matter set out in paragraph 7 constitutes misconduct.
10. By reason of your misconduct and/or lack of competence your fitness to practise is
impaired.
Date:
Friday 28 February 2014, 10:00 – 12:00
Name of Registrant:
Shauny Napier
Profession:
Operating department practitioner
Hearing Location:
Health and Care Professions Council, Park House,
184 Kennington Park Road, London, SE11 4BU
Committee:
Conduct and Competence Committee
Allegation:
Whilst as an Operating Department Practitioner:
1. On 30 May 2012 at West Cheshire Magistrates’ Court you were convicted of two
offences of stealing a prescription of a value unknown belonging to Nuffield Health, the
Grosvenor Hospital.
2. For the above offences you received a 12 month Community Order with supervision
plus 200 hours of community service and £85 costs.
3. By reason of your conviction your fitness to practise as an Operating Department
Practitioner is impaired.

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