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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).

A review that brings together evidence relating to the return to clinical or frontline practice of health and social care professionals following an extended period of absence

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. 

A 45-minute session looking at employers' responsibilities around raised concerns, including the importance of listening to them, barriers around them and how to overcome those barriers. We'll also look at effective approaches to acting upon raised concerns.

We have developed an eLearning module which combines a refresher on EDI and includes aspects of unconscious bias and sexual harassment. In addition, all partners have to receive training on information security as they deal with information on behalf of the HCPC.

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.

During the festive period this year we’ll be closing temporarily, beginning at 12 noon on 22 December 2023. We will reopen on 2 January 2024 as normal.

Interprofessional education is an important area to the HCPC, to ensure learners are properly prepared for practice. We have identified good practice and challenges with education provider approaches to embedding and delivering interprofessional education.

Service user and carer involvement is an important area to the HCPC, to ensure learners are properly prepared for practice. We have identified good practice and challenges with education provider approaches to service user and carer involvement.

We’re currently reviewing the standards of education and training to make sure they're up-to-date. We invite all patients, service users, patient groups and representatives to an online workshop to share their thoughts, needs and experiences.

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?

We've partnered with CiC, a leading wellbeing service provider, to give independent, confidential and free emotional support and practical advice to all HCPC registrants going through the FTP process.

During the festive period this year we’ll be closing temporarily, beginning at 12 noon on 24 December 2024. We will reopen on 2 January 2025 as normal.

In this webinar we will explore how our standards and guidance require registrants to identify, acknowledge and respond appropriately to concerns about the safety and wellbeing of service users.