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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.

HCPC registered professionals discuss what our standards mean to them

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.

Case study: A paramedic self-referred after he posted inappropriate comments on social media, which caused his employer to suspend him.

Our expectations of education providers delivering training in podiatric surgery and of chiropodists / podiatrists who complete this training

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.

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 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.

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

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

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

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