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Top tips for professionalism on social media during COVID-19

Katherine Timms, Head of Policy and Standards, provides advice on how professionals can use social media appropriately during COVID-19

Prescribing

To be a prescriber means to have the legal authority to issue prescriptions

An employer’s perspective: Supporting staff to embed the updated standards

In this article, we provide three examples from real-life employers of HCPC registrants who describe how they are supporting their team with embedding the updated standards of proficiency.

Failure to provide adequate care

Case study: A professional body raised a concern that a biomedical scientist had acted beyond her scope of practise.

Bringing profession into disrepute / inappropriate comments on social media

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

Supporting your employees' health and wellbeing

Information and insights on how you can support employees through and after these difficult times

Standards for prescribing

Our expectations of education providers delivering training in prescribing and of professionals on our Register who prescribe

Dishonesty – fraud

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.

Failure to maintain adequate records

Case study: An occupational therapist’s employer raised concerns relating to their clinical practice and conduct, following a number of incidents relating to nine different cases.

Driving under the influence of alcohol

Case study: A podiatrist self-referred following a conviction for driving under the influence of alcohol.

Being selected for a CPD audit

If you are picked as part of the random sample for audit, we will send you information about completing your CPD profile

Supporting learners to speak up

Case study: Health Education and Improvement Wales (HEIW) share their work on developing a reflective toolkit which supports speaking up