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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.

For Occupational Therapy Day 2021, occupational therapist Buchan Jagdev tells us about how her role has changed during the pandemic and what motivates her to every day.

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.

We have listed the main resources that we signpost registrants to, when they have a question about record keeping

The professions we regulate have one or more designated titles that are protected by law and professionals must be registered to use them

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.

Emma is a registered occupational therapist. For Disability History Month 2023 she shares the story of her disability and its impacts on her life.

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.

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

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

Information about the process you need to complete if you are returning to practice after a break of more than two years

A list of the types of issues we cannot get involved with.

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.

The deadline for clinical scientists, prosthetists/orthotists and speech and language therapists to complete their registration renewal is fast approaching