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Keeping your standards relevant

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

Period of adaptation (POA)

A period of supervised practice intended to make up for significant shortfalls in an international application.

Balancing service user need during a pandemic

The factors to consider in applying our standards during the COVID-19 pandemic

Record keeping under pressure

The factors to consider in applying our standards during the COVID-19 pandemic

Practitioner psychologists

Professional bodies typically promote the profession, represent their members and provide curriculum frameworks, training and CPD.

Meeting our standards

Guidance and learning materials on putting our standards into practice and supporting professionalism

Education provider and visitor survey 2020 results

The HCPC runs a biennial education provider and visitor survey, which gathers feedback to improve these stakeholders’ experience and involvement

How to make a declaration

A closer look at the situations in which you would make a health and character declaration.

Check the Register

We keep a Register of health and care professionals who meet our standards for their training, professional skills, behaviour and health

Top tips for professionalism on social media during COVID-19

Katherine Timms, Head of Policy and Standards, provides advice on how professionals can use social media appropriately during COVID-19

Failure to provide adequate care

Case study: A professional body raised a concern that a biomedical scientist had acted beyond her scope of practise.

Bringing profession into disrepute / inappropriate comments on social media

Case study: A paramedic self-referred after he posted inappropriate comments on social media, which caused his employer to suspend him.