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Professional liaison groups

A professional liaison group (or ‘PLG’) provides advice to the Council or committees on strategic issues. Either the Council, or a committee can decide to set up a PLG, to look at a specific issue and report back.

Preceptorship for registrants working outside the NHS, including as sole practitioners

We recognise that many HCPC registrants are employed or work outside the NHS structures, where preceptorship is less well known and may be more difficult to access.

Keeping information safe

You need to take all reasonable steps to protect information about service users. By ‘reasonable steps’, we mean that you need to take sensible, practical measures to make sure that you keep the information safe.

What is your scope of practice

But how do you determine what your scope of practice is? This page, and the resources within it, will help.

Health and social care regulators

We work closely with the other UK health regulators to share best practice in a variety of areas. These include HR, education, equality and diversity, communications and governance.

Sole practitioners' group

Case study: Carl is a podiatrist working in independent practise. He is a sole practitioner and has run his business for 10 years

New threshold for paramedic registration

In 2018, we raised the level of qualification for paramedics’ registration. Previously paramedics needed to achieve ‘Equivalent to Certificate of Higher Education’ to become registered. Currently they need to achieve ’Bachelor degree with honours’.

Standards of conduct, performance and ethics

These standards set out, in general terms, how we expect our registrants to behave. We will use them if someone raises a concern about a registrant’s practice, and for decisions about the character of professionals who apply to our Register.

Registrant snapshot - 4 March 2025

Total number of registrants for the HCPC Register, broken down by profession and application route to registration (4 March 2025).

Registrant snapshot - 1 April 2025

Total number of registrants for the HCPC Register, broken down by profession and application route to registration (1 April 2025).

Registrant snapshot - 1 November 2024

Total number of registrants for the HCPC Register, broken down by profession and application route to registration (1 November 2024).

Case studies on making self referrals

Explore common scenarios where a registrant may need to consider making a self-referral

My Story - Cynthia Srikesavan (South Asian Heritage Month)

To mark South Asian Heritage Month 2024, Cynthia Srikesavan, a senior researcher in physiotherapy at the University of Oxford and a registered physiotherapist, shares her journey into healthcare and how her background inspires her work.

Return to practice: a win-win for employers and professionals

Speech and language therapist Debbie Halden shares her experience supporting a former registrant return to practice