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The Health and Care Professions Council has recently revised our standards for prescribing, following a public consultation. The revised standards took effect on 1 September 2019.

We have released new eLearning modules to support your development in your role and inform you about changes in our standards.

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.

Read our joint letter regarding the busy winter period and how we are supporting health and care professionals during this time.

We want to remind health and care professionals how important it is to look after yourself.

Our new strategy brings together all that we have heard over the past six months from patients, registrants, professional bodies, education providers, employers and partners, to set out our focus for the next five years. 

In early 2017, the HCPC commenced a review of the Indicative Sanctions Policy to ensure it is up to date, reflects public opinion, and continues to support fair and proportionate decision making. As part of this review we commissioned market research into the public’s views of the Policy and undertook a public consultation.

The UK Government published its COVID-19 Vaccines Delivery Plan on Monday 11th January.

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.