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We’re currently reviewing the standards of education and training to make sure they're up-to-date with current practice. We invite all students and learners on HCPC-approved programmes to an online workshop to share their thoughts.

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.

Equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) is an important area to the HCPC, to ensure learners are properly supported and prepared for practice. We have identified good practice and challenges with education provider approaches to embedding EDI into their programmes.

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?

Jonny Noble, Head of Professional Practice for the Northern Ireland Ambulance Service (NIAS), shares his insight into supporting CPD effectively in a team.

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.

A look at our core model principles and the way we work, to enhance your understanding of our role and how we work together. 

Information about rejoining the Register after you have been removed following a fitness to practise case.  

In 2018, we raised the level of qualification for paramedics’ registration. Previously paramedics needed to achieve ‘Equivalent to Certificate of Higher Education’ to become registered. Currently they need to achieve ’Bachelor degree with honours’.

A webinar for HCPC-registered professionals in Northern Ireland.

This session covers how to meet the HCPC standards on record-keeping - specifically looking at how they relate to Encompass, Northern Ireland’s new electronic patient record system.

A webinar for HCPC-registered professionals in Northern Ireland.

This session covers how to meet the HCPC standards on record-keeping - specifically looking at how they relate to Encompass, Northern Ireland’s new electronic patient record system.

Professional practice practitioner and AHP Avril Platt gives us an insight into how a team of AHPs all work together.

Lay Council member