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Our flexible approach takes into account of the broad range of health and care professionals and is based on outcomes

The duty of candour is important for anyone working in health and care, but what does it mean in practice?

Ahead of the revised standards of conduct, performance and ethics coming into effect, HCPC Policy colleagues outline the key areas that employers, managers and leaders of registrants may wish to focus on.

High level principles of good practice expected of everyone when consulting and or prescribing remotely from the patient

Copies of your documents must be correctly certified by a person of standing in the community

We have emphasised the importance of registrants looking after their own mental health and seeking help where necessary as a part of maintaining their fitness to practise. This is one theme within the key changes to the updated standards of proficiency for all professions. 

We get many questions about record keeping from registrants. This page runs through the most common questions and signposts to other sources of advice

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

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

Information held by the HCPC on Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI)

We are required to keep case records for a period of time once the case has ended. 

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

Based on our recent assessments of education providers and programmes, these reports set out a ‘state of the nation’ for education and training in the 15 professions we regulate.

The HCPTS makes independent decisions about registrants' fitness to practise