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Total number of registrants for the HCPC Register, broken down by profession and application route to registration (7 January 2025).

Our guidance says you should use your “professional judgement” to come to decisions about what is and is not within your scope of practice (the limit of your skills, knowledge and experience). But what does this “professional judgement” look like in practice?

Case study: Carl is a podiatrist working in independent practise. He is a sole practitioner and has run his business for 10 years

Explore common scenarios where a registrant may need to consider making a self-referral

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

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

Jonny Noble, Head of Professional Practice for the Northern Ireland Ambulance Service (NIAS), shares his insight into supporting CPD effectively in a team.

This page provides information for registrants and answers some frequently asked questions.

Case study: An employer raised concerns about an operating department practitioner’s (ODP) conviction of fraud. For this conviction, she was sentenced to 18-months imprisonment and suspended for 24 months.

Speech and language therapist Debbie Halden shares her experience supporting a former registrant return to practice

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

These pages outline some of the benefits and outcomes that supervision can have on your professional development and provide some top tips on how you can effectively approach supervision in your practice

Leadership is a skill anyone can demonstrate, at any level. In its simplest form, it means acting as a role model and displaying the core aspects of professionalism.

'As much as the situation is crazy and almost worthy of an apocalypse film, I feel lucky I can go to work every day and mix with friends and colleagues. It keeps some sense of normality day to day.'

To mark South Asian Heritage Month 2025, Preetpal Sooch, Head of Podiatry at Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust, shares how her Sikh upbringing and cultural heritage have shaped her leadership journey in the NHS and her commitment to representation and equity across healthcare.