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A review that brings together evidence relating to the return to clinical or frontline practice of health and social care professionals following an extended period of absence

This is also known as a certificate of current professional status (CCPS) or letter of good standing. You may require this if you're applying for a job or registration in a country outside the UK. 

Case study: A paramedic self-referred after he posted inappropriate comments on social media, which caused his employer to suspend him.

Total number of registrants for the HCPC Register, broken down by profession and application route to registration (4 March 2025).

Total number of registrants for the HCPC Register, broken down by profession and application route to registration (1 December 2024).

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

Total number of registrants for the HCPC Register, broken down by profession and application route to registration (1 April 2025).

Total number of registrants for the HCPC Register, broken down by profession and application route to registration (1 November 2024).

Case study: Health Education and Improvement Wales (HEIW) share their work on developing a reflective toolkit which supports speaking up

We’re currently reviewing the standards of education and training to make sure they're up-to-date. We invite all patients, service users, patient groups and representatives to an online workshop to share their thoughts, needs and experiences.

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.

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.

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?

During the festive period this year we’ll be closing temporarily, beginning at 12 noon on 22 December 2023. We will reopen on 2 January 2024 as normal.