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As a health and care professional, you must promote and protect the interests of service users and carers

We are calling on employers, managers, education providers, professional bodies and unions to prevent these behaviours from happening, and to encourage greater reporting when they do. As a regulator of 15 different professions, the HCPC has a role to play too.

You’ll be asked to sign a declaration regarding background checks to enable us to check that they are genuine with the organisations or individuals who provided them

Guidelines on insurance can be tricky, so we've compiled some of the questions our registrants commonly ask 

How to consider applicants with convictions or cautions and make decisions regarding their suitability for registration and ability to provide a professional service for the public. 

Information about the cookies used on our website and how to review your preferences and consent.

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?

If selected for CPD audit, you'll be asked to submit a profile as proof of your activities and how they meet the standards for CPD

Total number of registrants for the main HCPC Register, broken down by profession (1 March 2023).

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

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