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Get access to a number of independent support services, resources and useful contacts to help you through the FTP process

We are eager to highlight the vital work that you and many other health and care colleagues are doing during this unprecedented time

Provide details of any registration or membership you currently and/or have previously held in countries outside of the UK

You need to take all reasonable steps to protect information about service users. By ‘reasonable steps’, we mean that you need to take sensible, practical measures to make sure that you keep the information safe.

People on the HCPC’s Register must be able to communicate effectively in English in order to meet our standards of proficiency

This section is for applicants who have previously been on the Register and would like to re-join it.

We've compiled a list of top tips to help make the CPD auditing process as smooth as possible.

A professional liaison group (or ‘PLG’) provides advice to the Council or committees on strategic issues. Either the Council, or a committee can decide to set up a PLG, to look at a specific issue and report back.

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.

These standards set out, in general terms, how we expect our registrants to behave. We will use them if someone raises a concern about a registrant’s practice, and for decisions about the character of professionals who apply to our Register.

But how do you determine what your scope of practice is? This page, and the resources within it, will help.

We work closely with the other UK health regulators to share best practice in a variety of areas. These include HR, education, equality and diversity, communications and governance.

This page provides information for registrants and answers some frequently asked questions.

Case study: A paramedic self-referred after he posted inappropriate comments on social media, which caused his employer to suspend him.

This is also known as a certificate of current professional status (CCPS) or letter of good standing. You may require this if you're applying for a job or registration in a country outside the UK.