Heassan Al Hamid

Introduction

Heassan Al Hamid is a podiatrist whose registration was cancelled by the NSW Civil and Administrative Tribunal after it found that he breached a supervision condition of his registration by providing podiatry services without supervision on 311 occasions between June 2023 and January 2024, breached training and education conditions, failed to provide evidence of professional indemnity insurance, and made false or misleading statements to the Podiatry Council of NSW on nine occasions. The Health Care Complaints Commission prosecuted the complaint. In its decision of 26 March 2026 the Tribunal found the complaint proven, found Al Hamid guilty of unsatisfactory professional conduct and professional misconduct, cancelled his registration with a twelve-month non-review period, and prohibited him from providing any health service until a reinstatement order.

Background Information

Al Hamid practised podiatry in New South Wales under conditions — supervision, training and education, and insurance requirements — that regulators attach to a practitioner’s registration when they have decided he may keep working only inside guardrails. The conditions regime is the middle rung of health discipline: tighter than reprimand, looser than cancellation, and enforceable because the practitioner’s continued registration depends on compliance. The Podiatry Council of NSW administers those conditions and receives the compliance evidence. The case against Al Hamid was not about his clinical technique; it was about nearly a year of practising as though the guardrails were not there, and telling the Council things that were not true. The complaint was prosecuted by the Health Care Complaints Commission before the Tribunal.

The Controversy or Incident That Led to Their Cancellation

Tribunal findings. The findings below are the formal adjudications of the NSW Civil and Administrative Tribunal in a case prosecuted by the Health Care Complaints Commission. They were found proven in the Tribunal’s decision of 26 March 2026. The sources report no criminal proceedings arising from the conduct.

It was alleged that Mr Al Hamid breached a supervision condition of his registration by providing podiatry services without supervision on 311 occasions between June 2023 and January 2024; breached training and education conditions by failing to provide the Podiatry Council of NSW with various training and education records, including current certifications in CPR and anaphylaxis management; breached a condition by failing to provide the Council with evidence of his professional indemnity insurance; and made false or misleading statements to the Council on nine occasions between 20 July 2023 and 1 February 2024. In its decision of 26 March 2026 the Tribunal found the complaint proven, found Mr Al Hamid guilty of unsatisfactory professional conduct and professional misconduct, cancelled his registration with a non-review period of twelve months, and made an order prohibiting him from providing a health service until the Tribunal makes a reinstatement order.

Public Reaction and Consequences

The Health Care Complaints Commission published its media release announcing the cancellation on 27 March 2026, the day after the decision. The arithmetic of the case is its own indictment: 311 unsupervised occasions in roughly seven months is a working week of patients treated outside the conditions almost every week, and the nine false statements were not one lapse but a sustained course of dealing with his own regulator. The prohibition order is the sharper edge — unlike the non-review period, which merely delays review of the cancellation, it bars Al Hamid from providing any health service at all until the Tribunal affirmatively reinstates him, meaning he cannot lawfully work in any health role in the meantime. The release names no appeal and no public statement from Al Hamid.

Current Status

Al Hamid’s podiatry registration is cancelled, with the twelve-month non-review period running from the 26 March 2026 decision, and he is separately prohibited from providing any health service until the Tribunal makes a reinstatement order. He cannot lawfully practise podiatry — or any other health service — while both orders stand. The Tribunal’s decision is published through NSW Caselaw. The sources report no public statement from Al Hamid and no appeal against the findings or either order. No patients were reported harmed in the material the Commission published; the case was adjudicated on the conditions breaches and the false statements rather than on any injury.

Impact on Their Career/Life

A podiatry career ended not in the consulting chair but at the compliance desk: the regulator that had kept him practising under conditions concluded that he had treated 311 occasions of unsupervised practice, missing CPR and anaphylaxis certifications, absent insurance evidence and nine false statements as the terms of a normal working year. Conditions exist as the alternative to erasure from the register, and their sustained breach converts the conditions case into a cancellation case — which is what happened here, with the prohibition order extending the bar beyond his own profession to every health service. A return after a proven false-statements finding against his own regulator would require the Tribunal to re-run the trust calculation from zero.

Sources

• NSW Health Care Complaints Commission, “Mr Heassan Al Hamid – Podiatrist – Cancellation and prohibition order for unsatisfactory professional conduct and professional misconduct,” 27 March 2026 — source