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As part of our Fitness to Practise (FTP) Improvement Programme to consistently enhance the communication, engagement and support we provide to people who are part of our FTP processes, we’re happy to announce that we’ve partnered with the cross regulatory independent lay advocacy service POhWER.

This increase of £6.98 per annum means the HCPC will still have among the lowest registrant fees of all the professional health and care regulators.

The HCPC, in collaboration with eight other professional health and care regulators, has published the latest Whistleblowing disclosures report for 2024.

The Health and Care Professions Council is deeply saddened by the death of Her Majesty the Queen, and we offer our sincere condolences to the Royal Family.

On 14 January we launched our new Threshold Policy for Fitness to Practise Investigations and Approach to the Investigation of Health Matters policy.

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. 

The HCPC has published its Corporate Plan 2025-26, setting out how we will continue to make progress on each of our six strategic priorities over the next year.

The Professional Standards Authority (PSA) has today published its annual performance review of the HCPC. The HCPC has met 16 of the 18 Standards of Good Regulation, regaining two fitness to practise (FTP) standards and one standard linked to registration.

Following our consultation with registrants, professional bodies, trade unions, and the public last year, the legislation to implement our latest proposed fee increase has now been approved in both the UK and Scottish Parliaments.

A collaboration of five regulators, including the HCPC has published a joint statement on principles relating to the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in education and training.