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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

We consider misuse of title cases, where individuals use one of our protected titles without being on our Register.

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

Principles developed by the HCPC and other healthcare regulators, patient organisations, and NHS partners to ensure informed decision-making and shared responsibility in care.

In this section we give statistics for the outcome of previous CPD audits

If a concern is raised or referral is made about a HCPC-registered professional, our fitness to practice investigations process will begin. This flowchart summarises the steps.