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Medical entitlements and COVID-19

The factors to consider in applying our standards during the COVID-19 pandemic

Your renewal fee payments

Information about paying your renewal fee, including payment types and direct debit collection dates for each profession.

Keeping your standards relevant

How we're ensuring our standards reflect the expectations of a modern day health service and the real lived-in context you work in

Professional bodies for arts therapists

Professional bodies typically promote the profession, represent their members and provide curriculum frameworks, training and CPD.

Keeping information safe

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.

An employer's perspective: Supporting a registrant through fitness to practise proceedings

Ruth Clement is Head of Kent Children’s Therapies at Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust. A concern was raised about a HCPC-registered therapist that Ruth line-managed. Here she gives her perspective on the events and shares tips for employers or managers in similar situations.

Revised standards of conduct, performance and ethics

Information about the revisions to the standards of conduct, performance and ethics, which were consulted on in 2023 and came into effect on 1 September 2024.

Executive summary

Based on our recent assessments of education providers and programmes, these reports set out a ‘state of the nation’ for education and training in the 15 professions we regulate.

Case studies of fitness to practise concerns

Our case studies illustrate the types of issues that are taken into consideration by a panel when deciding if a registrant’s fitness to practise is impaired

Upskilling and training responsibilities

Our changes provide further guidance around scope of practice and highlight the need to make sure registrants have the knowledge, skills and experience to practise safely and effectively. 

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