WILTSHIRE physiotherapist Adam McMackin has been struck off the Health and Care Professions Council register following a review of a 12-month suspension.

The suspension resulting from lack of competence and misconduct whilst employed by Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

Mr McMackin, of Trowbridge, was said to have failed to maintain professional boundaries and for basic failings over a long period including not keeping accurate records or completing assessment and treatment plans to an acceptable standard.

Allegations also included that on December 2, 2011, he sent a Facebook message to Patient A and invited her out for a drink, something that he has never denied.

On another occasion, while in Trowbridge pub, he approached Patient A and said: "I know you" or words to that effect and claimed to have treated Patient A for a bad back when he had not.

It is also said that November 30, 2012, he went into the Wheelchair Service at Melksham Hospital, part of the Great Western Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, breaching the terms of a suspension made over the matters which 'amount to misconduct and/or lack of competence'.

A panel of the HCPC Conduct and Competence Committee, sitting in London, recently conducted a first review of a suspension order imposed on July 22, 2014. 

With no information from Mr McMackin in relation to any steps he has taken to remedy his lack of competence and misconduct, the panel found that his fitness to practise was still impaired.

Panel chair Gary Leong said: "No useful purpose would be served by continuing or extending the current suspension order, given Mr McMackin’s lack of engagement throughout the whole process of the HCPC proceedings.

"In the circumstances of this case, a striking off order is the only appropriate and proportionate sanction.”

The striking off order will take effect upon the expiry of the current suspension order.

Mr McMackin was not present or represented at the hearing.