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The profile of education and training is changing, with a wider variety of pre-registration education and training programmes approved by HCPC. This includes a broader range of qualification levels, and a significant increase in the number of apprenticeship programmes in England.

This consultation sought to enable people living with aphasia and their carers to be meaningfully involved in evaluating the standards of conduct, performance and ethics set by HCPC and to provide feedback, based on their own experiences, which may inform changes to the standards.

You need to take all reasonable steps to protect information about service users. By ‘reasonable steps’, we mean that you need to take sensible, practical measures to make sure that you keep the information safe.

This document is for health and care professionals who are not registered, and who need to apply for readmission to the Register

People on the HCPC’s Register must be able to communicate effectively in English in order to meet our standards of proficiency

This section is for applicants who have previously been on the Register and would like to re-join it.

These standards set out, in general terms, how we expect our registrants to behave. We will use them if someone raises a concern about a registrant’s practice, and for decisions about the character of professionals who apply to our Register.

A professional liaison group (or ‘PLG’) provides advice to the Council or committees on strategic issues. Either the Council, or a committee can decide to set up a PLG, to look at a specific issue and report back.

We've compiled a list of top tips to help make the CPD auditing process as smooth as possible.

Information about the areas operating urgent support, and how you can contact us if your query falls into one of these.

We work closely with the other UK health regulators to share best practice in a variety of areas. These include HR, education, equality and diversity, communications and governance.

Join this session to hear from us directly about our current consultation on changes to fees, with the opportunity to ask questions and offer your thoughts

In 2018, we raised the level of qualification for paramedics’ registration. Previously paramedics needed to achieve ‘Equivalent to Certificate of Higher Education’ to become registered. Currently they need to achieve ’Bachelor degree with honours’.

From 29 January 2025, new English language proficiency requirements for new international applicants seeking to join the Register will come into effect.

Our new whistleblowing policy provides guidance on what to do if you have a concern about wrongdoing in the public interest.