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Our guidance says you should use your “professional judgement” to come to decisions about what is and is not within your scope of practice (the limit of your skills, knowledge and experience). But what does this “professional judgement” look like in practice?

This page provides information for registrants and answers some frequently asked questions.

A webinar for HCPC-registered professionals in Northern Ireland.

This session covers how to meet the HCPC standards on record-keeping - specifically looking at how they relate to Encompass, Northern Ireland’s new electronic patient record system.

Leadership is a skill anyone can demonstrate, at any level. In its simplest form, it means acting as a role model and displaying the core aspects of professionalism.

It appears that due to a system error the usual direct debit collection for radiographers, orthoptists and paramedics has been claimed a week early. We apologise for any inconvenience that this may have caused.

Jonny Noble, Head of Professional Practice for the Northern Ireland Ambulance Service (NIAS), shares his insight into supporting CPD effectively in a team.

Due to planned maintenance work by our system provider, our online registration services will be unavailable on the morning of Thursday 7 November 2023, between 9:00am and 12:00pm midday.

Due to planned maintenance to improve our registration services, your online account will be temporarily unavailableon the evening of Thursday 27 April, between 5-8pm GMT. 

'As much as the situation is crazy and almost worthy of an apocalypse film, I feel lucky I can go to work every day and mix with friends and colleagues. It keeps some sense of normality day to day.'

A webinar for HCPC-registered professionals in Northern Ireland.

This session covers how to meet the HCPC standards on record-keeping - specifically looking at how they relate to Encompass, Northern Ireland’s new electronic patient record system.

To mark South Asian Heritage Month 2025, Preetpal Sooch, Head of Podiatry at Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust, shares how her Sikh upbringing and cultural heritage have shaped her leadership journey in the NHS and her commitment to representation and equity across healthcare.

If you’re asked to complete a test of competence, it means we need more information about whether you can practice safely and effectively in the UK.  

Case study: An employer raised concerns about an operating department practitioner’s (ODP) conviction of fraud. For this conviction, she was sentenced to 18-months imprisonment and suspended for 24 months.

The standards of proficiency mapping document is required to look for evidence that you can meet the standards.