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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.

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

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

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 opened a temporary register for final year students who have completed their placement learning

We have produced a wide range of guidance and FAQs to support students through COVID-19

Information for applicants and registrants on which health issues need to be declared to us, and why. 

The first page you’ll see is the ‘Before we begin’ page

We think that it’s important to further clarify within the standards that registrants do not need to stop practising simply because they have a physical or mental health condition.

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.

Details on which elements of the revised standards of proficiency remains the same