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Information about the process you need to complete if you are returning to practice after a break of more than two years

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.

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.

Total number of registrants for the HCPC Register, broken down by profession and application route to registration (4 March 2025).

Explore common scenarios where a registrant may need to consider making a self-referral

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. 

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.

Total number of registrants for the HCPC Register, broken down by profession and application route to registration (1 April 2025).

Total number of registrants for the HCPC Register, broken down by profession and application route to registration (1 November 2024).

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.

To mark South Asian Heritage Month 2024, Cynthia Srikesavan, a senior researcher in physiotherapy at the University of Oxford and a registered physiotherapist, shares her journey into healthcare and how her background inspires her work.

We signpost you to some of the resources that exist to help you maintain your wellbeing and good mental health during this COVID-19 pandemic.

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

Our guidance says you should use your “professional judgement” to come to decisions about what is and is not within your scope of practice (the limit of your skills, knowledge and experience). But what does this “professional judgement” look like in practice?

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.