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Blog by Christine Elliott, Chair of the Health and Care Professions Council

If a concern is raised or referral is made about a HCPC-registered professional, our fitness to practice investigations process will begin. This flowchart summarises the steps. 

Find out who won the HCPC student competition 2025, which asked students to design a learning session about speaking up and raising concerns.  

This paper presents highlights from our year in registration survey 2022 (formerly known as the new graduate survey), which seeks the views of those who have been HCPC-registered for a year about their education and training programme, how this prepared them to practice, and the first year in employment. 

In this webinar we will explore the requirement to the requirement to look after your own health and wellbeing, ensuring you are fit to practise.

Victoria Harris, co-author of the CPD Principles for lifelong learning, blogs about why doing CPD right is so important, and what the Principles are. Published as part of CPD Week 2025.

Professional bodies typically promote the profession, represent their members and provide curriculum frameworks, training and CPD.

The UK’s leading event for improving the health, wellbeing, safety and performance of today’s workforce

These reports set out a ‘state of the nation’ for education and training in the 15 professions we regulate.

A #myHCPCstandards​ webinar on getting it right when things go wrong (raising concerns and the duty of candour).

The Indicative Sanctions Policy sets out what principles Practice Committee Panels should consider when deciding what, if any, sanction should be applied to fitness to practise cases

Service User Expert Advisors will be engaged in an effective and targeted manner, which is reflective of the skills, expertise and experience successful candidates bring to the role

Changes align with amendments made to the standards of proficiency to strengthen our commitment to EDI.

A 45-minute session looking at the ideas of 'just culture' and a 'learning culture' in the healthcare workplace, the impact they can have on organisational performance and individual wellbeing, plus how you can reflect on the culture in your own team and organisation.