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A look at the responsibilities of, and resources for, education providers concerned about the impact of a student's health condition on their ability to practice.

#myHCPCstandards​ webinar, recorded July 2024, on scope of practice. 

Further information and guidance to help you determine what is and is not in your scope of practice

Local arrangements can be made to allow health and care professionals who are not prescribers to supply or administer medicines

To be a prescriber means to have the legal authority to issue prescriptions

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

There are a small number of circumstances where you might need to pass on information without consent, or when you have asked for consent but the service user has refused it

Case study: Munira is a physiotherapist working in private practice. She has treated her service user Russel for the last three months after he was involved in a fall at home.

Case study: Emily is a dietitian working in an NHS Trust hospital. She also volunteers at a local charity that raises awareness about diabetes at events and conferences

Template to help you guide your own activities

The new model aims to deliver proportionate and flexible regulatory action through a more intelligent use of data and a risked based approach to education programme assurance

Case study: Dipak is a podiatrist who has recently started co-ordinating a campaign with his employer to promote the profession to the public

Case study: Desmond is a radiographer who posted on social media about particular patient injuries and occasionally shared photos of their x-rays

Registrant statistics by profession, application route and annotations

This is a one off process for those who have not yet used the new system