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We’re currently reviewing the standards of education and training to make sure they're up-to-date with current practice. We invite all students and learners on HCPC-approved programmes to an online workshop to share their thoughts.

Case study: An employer raised concerns about an operating department practitioner’s (ODP) conviction of fraud. For this conviction, she was sentenced to 18-months imprisonment and suspended for 24 months.

Partner Post is our e-newsletter dedicated to HCPC Partners, and provides updates on the latest news and developments that might affect Partners

Total number of registrants for the HCPC Register, broken down by profession and application route to registration (4 March 2025).

Communicating with our registrants is essential to the work that we do. It is important that registrants are kept up to date with developments that affect their professional registration

A review that brings together evidence relating to the return to clinical or frontline practice of health and social care professionals following an extended period of absence

This is also known as a certificate of current professional status (CCPS) or letter of good standing. You may require this if you're applying for a job or registration in a country outside the UK. 

Total number of registrants for the HCPC Register, broken down by profession and application route to registration (1 November 2024).

Total number of registrants for the HCPC Register, broken down by profession and application route to registration (1 April 2025).

A 45-minute session looking at employers' responsibilities around raised concerns, including the importance of listening to them, barriers around them and how to overcome those barriers. We'll also look at effective approaches to acting upon raised concerns.

Interprofessional education is an important area to the HCPC, to ensure learners are properly prepared for practice. We have identified good practice and challenges with education provider approaches to embedding and delivering interprofessional education.

Service user and carer involvement is an important area to the HCPC, to ensure learners are properly prepared for practice. We have identified good practice and challenges with education provider approaches to service user and carer involvement.

This page provides information for registrants and answers some frequently asked questions.

During the festive period this year we’ll be closing temporarily, beginning at 12 noon on 22 December 2023. We will reopen on 2 January 2024 as normal.

We have developed an eLearning module which combines a refresher on EDI and includes aspects of unconscious bias and sexual harassment. In addition, all partners have to receive training on information security as they deal with information on behalf of the HCPC.