The PA News Agency reports:
A medical professional who used a patient’s personal data to visit her home with a gift while working as a vaccinator has been struck off the register.
Josep Bofill Blanch, who was a registered physiotherapist employed by NHS Grampian in north-east Scotland, met the woman and gave her an injection when she attended his vaccination centre on May 7 2021.
He then found and messaged her on Facebook to ask if her arm was sore, before visiting her rural address the following day with a bottle of Kombucha tea as a gift when there was “no clinical justification” for him to do so, according to a Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) tribunal panel.
Read more at The Salisbury Journal.
Details of the case and the hearing can be found on the hcpts website. It is not clear to DataBreaches why the hearing was first held almost four years after Blanch resigned. The regulator says that Blanch had not informed them of his suspension by NHS Grampian. The hearing was held in Blanch’s absence as the regulator was reportedly unable to reach him via and UK or Spanish addresses they had for him and he had not contacted the regulator since 2022.