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If a concern is raised or referral is made about a HCPC-registered professional, our fitness to practice investigations process will begin. This flowchart summarises the steps. 

Katherine Timms, Head of Policy and Standards at the HCPC, answers the most common questions we receive from registrants about record keeping

Legal Assessors are legally qualified and provide advice to panels of the HCPC’s statutory committees and Council on questions of law

As we move forward with the wider programme of regulatory reform, we welcome this consultation to consider how the powers to introduce and remove professions from regulation might be used in the future.

The Indicative Sanctions Policy sets out what principles Practice Committee Panels should consider when deciding what, if any, sanction should be applied to fitness to practise cases

The flu jab is the best way to protect yourself and your service users against flu.

Find out who won the HCPC student competition 2025, which asked students to design a learning session about speaking up and raising concerns.  

Case study: Kathy is an occupational therapist, working in the NHS, and has recently trained as a best interests assessor

Learn about the benefits that supervision can have for your professional practice and the wider sector

For those who practised as part of the COVID-19 recovery, our returning to practice processes will take into account any impact this may have had on the wider healthcare workforce.

We regulate hearing aid dispensers on the basis of their professional title and also their protected function.

For those who qualified more than five years ago and have been practising outside of the UK since qualifying

Principles developed by the HCPC and other healthcare regulators, patient organisations, and NHS partners to ensure informed decision-making and shared responsibility in care.