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Our priority is ensuring that registrants have access to advice and support, so that they can get the help they need and ensure they are able to continue to practise safely, without fear of the impact on their registration. To support this, we have produced online materials aimed at registrants and updated our guidance on health and character to include more illustrative case studies.

The standards of proficiency that paramedics must meet in order to join, and remain on, the HCPC Register. 

There's just one week until 1 September 2023, when the updated HCPC standards of proficiency come into effect. We encourage all registrants to ensure they understand the updates and are ready to integrate them as far as they relate to their scope of practice. 

We regulate hearing aid dispensers on the basis of their professional title and also their protected function.

This policy statement sets out our broad approach to assessing the threshold level of qualification for entry to the Register.

As we enter the final year of our current Corporate Strategy, the HCPC is looking to recruit four new members of our Council: one registrant member and up to three lay members.

This report is an account of the making of a multi-professional regulator over its first fifteen years. 

The HCPC Corporate Plan 2025-26 sets out how we will continue to make progress on each of our six strategic priorities over the year.

Our primary purpose is to protect the public, but there are benefits to being a regulated profession

Professional bodies typically promote the profession, represent their members and provide curriculum frameworks, training and CPD.

Professional bodies typically promote the profession, represent their members and provide curriculum frameworks, training and CPD.

From midnight on 1st April 2019, gabapentin and pregabalin will be reclassified as Schedule 3 controlled drugs, under the Misuse of Drugs Regulations (2001), and Class C of the Misuse of Drugs Act (1971)

Monday 3 March marks the start of the HCPC's first ever CPD Week. We will be showcasing resources, sharing good practice and publishing materials designed to support registrants with their CPD.

Important information for social workers in England regarding the transfer of regulation to Social Work England including FAQs

Professional bodies typically promote the profession, represent their members and provide curriculum frameworks, training and CPD.