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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.

We have launched a consultation on our proposal to introduce guiding principles for preceptorship.

Paul Chapman on the benefits for employers in supporting professionals back to practice

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

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

Find out what rights your profession has and how these are changed

As we enter the final year of our current Corporate Strategy, the HCPC is looking to recruit four new members of our Council: one registrant member and up to three lay members.

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.

We have introduced new standards about promoting public health and preventing ill-health. This is one theme within the key changes to the updated standards of proficiency for all professions. 

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.