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

A 45-minute session looking at employers' responsibilities around raised concerns, including the importance of listening to them, barriers around them and how to overcome those barriers. We'll also look at effective approaches to acting upon raised concerns.

A look at our core model principles and the way we work, to enhance your understanding of our role and how we work together. 

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?

Information about rejoining the Register after you have been removed following a fitness to practise case.  

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.

Step-by-step process on making a self-referral

We are very pleased to have launched our new online materials on supervision, which provide practical advice and support for registrants and their supervisors

We have developed an eLearning module which combines a refresher on EDI and includes aspects of unconscious bias and sexual harassment. In addition, all partners have to receive training on information security as they deal with information on behalf of the HCPC.

Equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) is an important area to the HCPC, to ensure learners are properly supported and prepared for practice. We have identified good practice and challenges with education provider approaches to embedding EDI into their programmes.

'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.'

Ruth Clement is Head of Kent Children’s Therapies at Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust. A concern was raised about a HCPC-registered therapist that Ruth line-managed. Here she gives her perspective on the events and shares tips for employers or managers in similar situations.

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