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We are encouraging registered health and care professionals to keep up-to-date with all information and guidance concerning the recent outbreak of COVID-19.

Your concerns, arguments, and views about the impact of HCPC’s proposed fee rise have prompted us to re-think our approach.

As a prescription-only medicine, it is unlawful for Botox or Botox treatments to be advertised in any way to the public

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.

To be able to care for your patients, you must take care of yourself. Here are a few tips and resources to help you do that.

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.

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.

It’s been a year since we last launched our first Partner Survey, and we are interest in hearing how your experience as a HCPC partner has been.

We are working on the implementation of the new finance system which will replace the current three systems we use to make payments.

We regularly review our policies to ensure that they are fit for purpose.

We have had a busy twelve months recruiting for various HCPC partner roles and have been able to fill nearly all our vacancies. A very warm welcome to all our new partners!

As part of the changes to our approval process, education providers will make electronic-only documentary submissions from September 2019

In early 2017, the HCPC commenced a review of the Indicative Sanctions Policy to ensure it is up to date, reflects public opinion, and continues to support fair and proportionate decision making. As part of this review we commissioned market research into the public’s views of the Policy and undertook a public consultation.