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Learn how to overcome the challenges of being open and honest in practice.

Our changes provide further guidance around scope of practice and highlight the need to make sure registrants have the knowledge, skills and experience to practise safely and effectively. 

The requirement to be open and honest, otherwise known as the duty of candour, is part of the standards of conduct, performance and ethics.

You have a professional responsibility to keep full, clear and accurate records

Speech and language therapist Debbie Halden shares her experience supporting a former registrant return to practice

Today the revised HCPC standards of conduct, performance and ethics, and guidance on social media which sits alongside the standards, come into effect. It is now every registrant’s responsibility to be familiar with the changes and meet the revised standards.

We expect our registrants to take all reasonable steps to reduce risk of harm, and to maintain a safe practice environment

Persona: A registrant gaining additional qualifications to extend their individual scope of practice beyond the generally accepted scope of their profession.

To mark South Asian Heritage Month 2024, Cynthia Srikesavan, a senior researcher in physiotherapy at the University of Oxford and a registered physiotherapist, shares her journey into healthcare and how her background inspires her work.

Prabha, a registered occupational therapist, shares her journey from India to the UK, and how she discovered her calling.

We have changed the wording of the standards to move registrants away from a passive understanding of the standards, and towards active implementation of them. This is one theme within the key changes to the updated standards of proficiency for all professions. 

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