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Watch: Employer Insights webinar - Updated standards of proficiency

Watch a recording of this 45-minute webinar designed to specially for employers and managers of HCPC registrants, to support them with the updated standards of proficiency.

Updated standards of proficiency: now in effect

It is now every registrant’s responsibility to meet the updated standards, as far as they relate to their scope of practice.

Partner newsletter

Partner Post is our e-newsletter dedicated to HCPC Partners, and provides updates on the latest news and developments that might affect Partners

Applicants with convictions

How to consider applicants with convictions or cautions and make decisions regarding their suitability for registration and ability to provide a professional service for the public. 

Returning to Practice: My Story - Roxanne Mitchell-Nembhard

Roxanne is a Specialist Occupational Therapist with a special interest in Stroke and Neurology. Here, she tells us the story of how she returned to practice in 2021 after a career break.

Our requirements if you are returning to practice

Our return to practice requirements are flexible, minimum requirements. They aim to protect the public by making sure you have up-to-date knowledge and skills.

Registrants and representative organisations

Communicating with our registrants is essential to the work that we do. It is important that registrants are kept up to date with developments that affect their professional registration

Our equality, diversity and inclusion strategy

Our EDI strategy sets out how the HCPC intends to achieve our overarching vision of an actively anti-discriminatory organisation, and is supported by an EDI action plan

Employers

Employers, including those who manage, supervise or lead the work of HCPC registered professionals, play a key role providing a number of functions, including checking their employees’ registration

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

Consultation on updates to our sanctions policy opens

We’re reviewing our sanctions policy to improve consistency and further strengthen decision-making by independent fitness to practise (FTP) panels. The consultation is running from 29 May 2025 to 1 September 2025.

Key activities and resources - CPD Week 2025

There's a whole host of things going on during CPD Week 2025! These are the core and key activities and resources to keep an eye out for.

Service announcement: Christmas and New Year 2024

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.

Interprofessional education

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.