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The consultation on preceptorship sets out our ambition to construct a set of principles that can support registrants, employers and the wider sector in delivering better healthcare by ensuring healthcare professionals are better supported at key points in their careers.

Service user and carer involvement 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 service user and carer involvement.

Council Apprentice

The standards of proficiency that practitioner psychologists must meet in order to join, and remain on, the HCPC Register. 

We're delighted to announce that Christine Elliott has been reappointed as HCPC Chair for her second four-year term starting 28 February 2023.

We think that it’s important to further clarify within the standards that registrants do not need to stop practising simply because they have a physical or mental health condition.

Our guidelines for letting service users know you are a registered professional

We require certified copies to prove your identity including a change of name document, if applicable

Case study: Raff is a hearing aid dispenser working in independent practice. He has just started running his own business as a sole practitioner in a remote location in the Scottish Highlands.

Responding to discussions among our registrants, here’s some background on why some titles are regulated and others not.

Information for current registrants who have a health condition or disability

As our 12-month updating period comes into effect once more, Policy Manager Madeleine Connor looks back on the COVID-19 pandemic and circumstances that temporarily extended it.

As an organisation, our aim is to provide the best customer service we can for all our registrants and stakeholders