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Katherine Timms, Head of Policy and Standards at the HCPC, answers the most common questions we receive from registrants about record keeping

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

Snapshot of outcomes related to higher and gegree apprenticeships for the academic year 2019-20

We review our standards periodically to ensure that they are up-to date with current practice.

How to raise a concern about a HCPC registered professional if you are a member of the public

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

Legal Assessors are legally qualified and provide advice to panels of the HCPC’s statutory committees and Council on questions of law

We regulate hearing aid dispensers on the basis of their professional title and also their protected function.

For those who practised as part of the COVID-19 recovery, our returning to practice processes will take into account any impact this may have had on the wider healthcare workforce.

The way we communicate is continually evolving and our standards need to reflect this.

CPD Assessors are current HCPC registrants who assess registrant CPD profiles against the HCPC’s standards

We estimate that the average processing time for CPD profiles will be eight to twelve weeks

We have worked with the UK Government to create a COVID-19 temporary register of former registrants

For those who qualified more than five years ago and have been practising outside of the UK since qualifying