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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. 

Paul Chapman on the benefits for employers in supporting professionals back to practice

If a concern is raised or referral is made about a HCPC-registered professional, our fitness to practice investigations process will begin. This flowchart summarises the steps. 

It is important that you get the service user’s permission, or ‘consent’, before you share or disclose their information or use it for reasons which are not related to the care or services you provide for them

HCPC Policy Manager Tom Miller explains the proposals we are making and why it is especially important to hear from employers and managers of HCPC registrants, who have experience of how the current arrangements are working.

Info on joining the Register, renewals, international applicants, period of adaptation and returning to practice

The Council has overall responsibility for protecting people using registrants' services

The regulatory documents, policies and procedures that govern how we operate

We have provided key statistics as a summary of the picture of education and training for the professions we regulate, and how that picture is changing.

Work within the limits of your knowledge and skills - standard 3 of the standards of conduct, performance and ethics.

This factsheet provides key EDI information for operating department practitioners and how the demographics of this group compare to the demographics of HCPC registrants overall

This factsheet provides key EDI information for prosthetists / orthotists and how the demographics of this group compare to the demographics of HCPC registrants overall

See the step-by-step guidance below of how to submit further information if requested by a CPD assessor