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Read our joint letter with NHS England, the Care Quality Commission, the General Medical Council, the CNO for England, the General Pharmaceutical Council and the Nursing and Midwifery Council on how we’re supporting professionals this winter.

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.

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)

Nadhim Zahawi has announced Monday 2 December 2019 as the date when Social Work England will take over from the HCPC as the new social work regulator

How we're ensuring our standards reflect the expectations of a modern day health service and the real lived-in context you work in

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.

Council members play a key part in setting strategy and policy for the HCPC and ensuring that public protection is at the heart of everything that we do.

We are undertaking a review of the standards of education and training (SETs).