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Social media in professional practice
Blog by Katherine Timms, Head of Policy and Standards, explaining how professionals on our register can use social media appropriately.
Consultation on Standards for prescribing
We are consulting on proposed changes to the Standards for prescribing.
Meet the HCPC, Aberdeen
Meet the HCPC (Aberdeen) is a chance to hear about our recent work, ask us questions and share ideas
CQC and Monitor
Regulating health and social care services in England and NHS foundation trusts
New threshold for paramedic registration
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’.
Professional indemnity - your questions answered
Guidelines on insurance can be tricky, so we've compiled some of the questions our registrants commonly ask
Our requirements of programmes meeting the revised standards of education and training
Last summer, we asked all pre-registration programmes to plan how they would meet the revised standards of education and training (SETs). From the 2018–19 academic year, we will assess whether your programme has met these standards via our annual monitoring process.
Paramedic prescribing: what you need to know
New legislation has come into force to allow advanced paramedics to prescribe medicines to patients. As of 1 April 2018, paramedics were able to undertake training in independent and supplementary prescribing.