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Blog by Katherine Timms, Head of Policy and Standards, explaining how professionals on our register can use social media appropriately.

You need to make informed and reasonable decisions about your own practice to make sure that you always respect and protect the confidentiality of service users

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. 

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

We are very pleased to have launched our new online materials on supervision, which provide practical advice and support for registrants and their supervisors

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

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

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

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.

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

In the 2024-25 academic year and beyond we are focusing on three key areas as we continue to play our part in responding to the challenges identified.

The factors to consider in applying our standards during the COVID-19 pandemic