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My COVID-19 story - Kairen Cullen
Kairen Cullen is a HCPC registered Educational Psychologist.
Failure to provide adequate care
Case study: A paramedic self-referred with an allegation that he carried out inadequate assessments.
Failure to maintain adequate records
Case study: An occupational therapist’s employer raised concerns relating to their clinical practice and conduct, following a number of incidents relating to nine different cases.
Failure to provide adequate care
Case study: A professional body raised a concern that a biomedical scientist had acted beyond her scope of practise.
Driving under the influence of alcohol
Case study: A podiatrist self-referred following a conviction for driving under the influence of alcohol.
Dishonesty by falsifying time sheet and travel expense claims
Case study: The NHS Counter Fraud Unit of the local NHS Trust raised concerns about a physiotherapist. On numerous occasions, the registrant submitted timesheets and claimed payments for hours they did not work.
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.
Failure to conduct a full / accurate assessment
Case study: An employer raised concerns about a psychologist who did not report a service user’s suicidal thoughts to their supervisor or any other professionals. This was despite it happening repeatedly and after recording a case note.
My COVID-19 story - Gillian Reeley
Gillian Reeley is a HCPC registered occupational therapist working for Aberdeen Royal Infirmary, NHS Grampian.
HCPC’s approach to the investigation of health matters
This policy explains how we investigate information we receive that indicates a registrant’s fitness to practise may be impaired because of their physical or mental health
Whistleblowing policy
Guidance for whistleblowers - Whistleblowing is where a worker (an employee, former employee, trainee, agency worker or member of an organisation) reports a wrongdoing in the public interest.
Further information - standards for pre and post registration education programmes
We have provided the following references and links to education resources for information only
Quality policy
We are committed to providing quality services to our stakeholders, learning from feedback and driving continuous improvement.
Policy statement - annotation to the Register
This policy statement sets out our broad approach to annotation of our Register
Review of the threshold level of qualification for entry to the Register
This policy statement sets out our broad approach to reviewing the threshold level of qualification for entry to the Register