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An employer's perspective - Strategies for effectively supporting CPD (Northern Ireland Ambulance Service)
Jonny Noble, Head of Professional Practice for the Northern Ireland Ambulance Service (NIAS), shares his insight into supporting CPD effectively in a team.
Registrant snapshot - 1 December 2024
Total number of registrants for the HCPC Register, broken down by profession and application route to registration (1 December 2024).
Registrant snapshot - 7 January 2025
Total number of registrants for the HCPC Register, broken down by profession and application route to registration (7 January 2025).
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
Case studies on making self referrals
Explore common scenarios where a registrant may need to consider making a self-referral
Standards in your words
HCPC registered professionals discuss what our standards mean to them
Bringing profession into disrepute / inappropriate comments on social media
Case study: A paramedic self-referred after he posted inappropriate comments on social media, which caused his employer to suspend him.
Dishonesty – fraud
Case study: An employer raised concerns about an operating department practitioner’s (ODP) conviction of fraud. For this conviction, she was sentenced to 18-months imprisonment and suspended for 24 months.
Employer Insights: Advice for Witnesses
Information to help your employees feel prepared before testifying and who to contact with further questions.
My COVID-19 story - Recently Qualified ODP
'As much as the situation is crazy and almost worthy of an apocalypse film, I feel lucky I can go to work every day and mix with friends and colleagues. It keeps some sense of normality day to day.'
Level of supervision
Case study: Ameena is a registered Band 7 Physiotherapist at an NHS Trust. Ameena has recently been asked by her employer to supervise Marianne, who has recently qualified as a Band 5 physiotherapist.
When social media use breaches service user confidentiality
Case study: Desmond is a radiographer who posted on social media about particular patient injuries and occasionally shared photos of their x-rays
Fitness to Practise Data Supplementary Analysis 2023-24
Our Fitness to Practise Annual Report published in October 2024 provided some analysis of our data in order to inform stakeholders and the public about this part of our work. Further analyses of our data are included in this new report and are in two sections.