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My Story – Krishna Gohil (South Asian Heritage Month 2025)
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.
UK-wide Professional Liaison Service
The Professional Liaison Service now operates with a Consultant in each of the four UK nations, who can design and deliver solutions that are specific to registrant and employer needs.
Failure to conduct a full / accurate assessment
Case study: An employer raised concerns about a psychologist who did not report a service user’s suicidal thoughts to their supervisor or any other professionals. This was despite it happening repeatedly and after recording a case note.
Inappropriate relationship with patient
Case study: A psychologist’s employer raised concerns that the registrant had taken a service user on a trip involving an overnight stay in a shared hotel room, bought the service user alcohol and appeared to be under the influence of alcohol in the presence of the service user.
Chiropodists / podiatrists
The standards of proficiency that chiropodists / podiatrists must meet in order to join, and remain on, the HCPC Register.
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.
Occupational therapists
The standards of proficiency that occupational therapists must meet in order to join, and remain on, the HCPC Register.
Operating department practitioners
The standards of proficiency that operating department practitioners must meet in order to join, and remain on, the HCPC Register.
Physiotherapists
The standards of proficiency that physiotherapists must meet in order to join, and remain on, the HCPC Register.
Prosthetists / orthotists
The standards of proficiency that prosthetists / orthotists must meet in order to join, and remain on, the HCPC Register.
Speech and language therapists
The standards of proficiency that speech and language therapists must meet in order to join, and remain on, the HCPC Register.
Clinical scientists
The standards of proficiency that clinical scientists must meet in order to join, and remain on, the HCPC Register.
Paramedics
The standards of proficiency that paramedics must meet in order to join, and remain on, the HCPC Register.
My Story - Srikesavan Sabapathy (South Asian Heritage Month 2023)
To mark South Asian Heritage Month 2023, Srikesavan Sabapathy shares his story of coming to the UK as an international registrant.