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

We have defined ‘practising your profession’ as drawing on your professional skills and knowledge in the course of your work.

EDI Forum member and HCPC registrant Dave Thomas shares his thoughts on the importance of EDI and urges fellow registrants to participate in the HCPC diversity data survey. 

It’s always exciting when new technologies arrive that can save us time and have the potential to help us to achieve new things. But it’s important we are mindful of the risks when adopting any new technology.

Access independent, confidential and free emotional support and practical advice for all HCPC registrants involved in the FTP process

Between the 10 April to 14 June 2024, we consulted on proposals to increase our fees.

Watch a recording of this 30-minute webinar designed specially for employers and managers of HCPC registrants, to support them with the revised standards of conduct, performance and ethics.

View our response to the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology and the Office for Artificial Intelligence’s consultation on AI regulation: a pro-innovation approach

A review of the standards of proficiency for social workers in England. This is part of the HCPCs wider review of these standards taking place in 2015 and 2016

You need to make informed and reasonable decisions about your own practice to make sure that you always respect and protect the confidentiality of service users

We think that it’s important to further clarify within the standards that registrants do not need to stop practising simply because they have a physical or mental health condition.

Council members play a key part in setting strategy and policy for the HCPC and ensuring that public protection is at the heart of everything that we do.

Registration assessors assess applications from health professionals who are eligible to apply via the international, EMR or grandparenting application routes