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The HCPC has updated its standards of proficiency for the first time since 2015. The crucial changes have been made following an extensive period of engagement with a wide range of stakeholders, to seek views and develop standards in line with current professional practice.

If we can't be sure that you meet our standards, we'll refuse your application to join the Register. This page sets out your options. 

Each year, we run a competition for students who are enrolled on an HCPC-approved pre-registration programme.

How we deal with serious cases during an investigation

Our case studies illustrate the types of issues that are taken into consideration by a panel when deciding if a registrant’s fitness to practise is impaired

Khadijah Nazir Salim is a highly specialised podiatrist (diabetes and vascular) working for Oldham Care Organisation, part of the Northern Care Alliance NHS Group.

What we need from providers to maintain their programme's approval through our performance review process.

We've published a statement on how we assess the eligibility of programmes against the threshold level

Our statement on how we review the threshold levels

To mark South Asian Heritage Month 2025, Krishna Gohil, a senior lecturer in podiatry and prescribing shares her journey from NHS clinical care to academia, and how her South Asian heritage continues to shape her work and inspire future healthcare professionals.

We regulate hearing aid dispensers on the basis of their professional title and also their protected function.

To mark South Asian Heritage Month 2021, Nusrat Kauser candidly shares her story and details the reality of what she has experienced in the health and care sector as a South Asian woman.

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