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Rachel Booth-Gardiner and Georgia Vine are occupational therapists with lived experiences of disabilities and founding members of disability network AbleOTUK. For Disability History Month 2024, they explore the history of disabled healthcare professionals, celebrate the achievements of AbleOTUK and review the sections of the HCPC standards relating to equality, diversity and inclusion.

This report provides information about the HPC’s work in considering allegations about the fitness to practise of our registrants.

We required that all education providers embedded our revised standards of proficiency (SOPs) from September 2023. We have assessed education provider alignment with the SOPs, and have considered common practices and challenges with this alignment.

Case study: An occupational therapist's employer raised concerns with us after the registrant left a notepad containing confidential information, pertaining to a number of service users, at the home address of a service user.

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

Our Fitness to practise report highlights key insights from the year, explains how we protect the public and shows how we help registrants meet our standards

We will draft allegations based on the relevant information we have gathered

In 2019, we commissioned the University of Surrey to produce a film evidencing the process and benefits of Schwartz rounds.

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.

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

Find out who won the HCPC student competition 2023, which asked students to design a learning session about health and wellbeing.