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Learn how to overcome the challenges of being open and honest in practice.

Our guidance says you should use your “professional judgement” to come to decisions about what is and is not within your scope of practice (the limit of your skills, knowledge and experience). But what does this “professional judgement” look like in practice?

Pam chairs a divisional EDI committee and is currently employed as a Professional Lead Allied Health Professional in a large Community NHS Foundation Trust, serving a diverse and multi-ethnic community.

We have significantly expanded the role of equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI), placing specific importance on making sure that practice is inclusive for all service users. This is one theme within the key changes to the updated standards of proficiency for all professions. 

The standards of proficiency that dietitians must meet in order to join, and remain on, the HCPC Register. 

How to ensure you meet our standards when handling information about service users

The standards of proficiency that radiographer must meet in order to join, and remain on, the HCPC Register. 

We have produced an animation to explain how we operate and how the HCPC benefits both registrants and service users

Professional bodies typically promote the profession, represent their members and provide curriculum frameworks, training and CPD.

The HCPC has launched our annual Diversity Data Survey and we need as many registrants as possible to respond, so we can gain a better understanding of equality, diversity and inclusion across the professions we regulate.

The standards of proficiency that chiropodists / podiatrists must meet in order to join, and remain on, the HCPC Register. 

The following terms are defined in the context of preceptorship.

Our expectations of education providers delivering training in orthoptists exemptions and of orthoptists who complete this training