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A key part of our work is making sure we understand the experience of those going through education programmes through our Year in Registration survey.

We want to continually improve our support for education providers in meeting our regulatory requirements, and delivering the best programmes they can. A key part of our work is making sure we understand the experience of those going through education programmes.

The HCPC’s  Standards of Proficiency set out the technical requirements and competencies – the proficiencies – that all registrants are required to be able to demonstrate on entry to their profession. All approved education programmes must ensure graduates can meet these standards for their profession. The revised sets of Standards of Proficiency must be delivered to all new cohorts starting from 1 September 2023. 

We emailed education providers due their performance review in 2022-23 and 2023-24 in early August. Providers who will undergo the process this year (2022-23) will have been given specific requirements and a key contact to work with at the HCPC. 

Our quality assurance approach means we use data and intelligence to inform how we undertake assessments. A great example of this is some work we recently carried out with Health Education and Improvement Wales (HEIW).

View our response to the Government Equalities Office consultation on banning conversion therapy in England and Wales.

Case study on reporting concerns about the safety or wellbeing of service users, carers or others

Case study on having consent from service users (or other appropriate authority) before any care, treatment or other services is carried out

Resilience is our capacity to recover quickly from difficulties and to adapt in the face of challenging circumstances

As a student, your scope of practice will change and develop as you progress through your studies