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Position statement: Taking part in industrial action

If you are an HCPC registrant taking part in industrial action, the behaviours set out in our standards of conduct, performance and ethics still apply

Christmas and New Year 2021: Service availability and how to contact us

Information about the areas operating urgent support, and how you can contact us if your query falls into one of these.

Dishonesty – fraud

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.

What is your scope of practice

But how do you determine what your scope of practice is? This page, and the resources within it, will help.

Changing learning, teaching and assessment methods

We have seen diversification in learning, teaching and assessments, which are in part driven by the education sector's response to the COVID-19 pandemic. We have found many innovations in this area have been embedded into programmes on a permanent basis.

Returning to practice

Information about the process you need to complete if you are returning to practice after a break of more than two years

Standards of conduct, performance and ethics - Connect review

This consultation sought to enable people living with aphasia and their carers to be meaningfully involved in evaluating the standards of conduct, performance and ethics set by HCPC and to provide feedback, based on their own experiences, which may inform changes to the standards.

Share your COVID-19 story

We are eager to highlight the vital work that you and many other health and care colleagues are doing during this unprecedented time

#myhcpcstandards: Leadership

In this webinar we will explore the role and importance of leadership at all levels of practice for HCPC registrants.

Standards of conduct, performance and ethics

These standards set out, in general terms, how we expect our registrants to behave. We will use them if someone raises a concern about a registrant’s practice, and for decisions about the character of professionals who apply to our Register.

Keeping information safe

You need to take all reasonable steps to protect information about service users. By ‘reasonable steps’, we mean that you need to take sensible, practical measures to make sure that you keep the information safe.

Health and social care regulators

We work closely with the other UK health regulators to share best practice in a variety of areas. These include HR, education, equality and diversity, communications and governance.

Section 5 – English language proficiency

People on the HCPC’s Register must be able to communicate effectively in English in order to meet our standards of proficiency