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Top tips for completing your CPD profile if you’re selected for audit

We've compiled a list of top tips to help make the CPD auditing process as smooth as possible.

Step 3 - Pay your renewal fee

You can spread the cost by paying by direct debit, which we will not collect until you have completed your professional declaration.

What happens if I don't renew

Steps you can take if you haven't renewed your registration in time or want to leave the Register

FTP registrant support service

Access independent, confidential and free emotional support and practical advice for all HCPC registrants involved in the FTP process

How to submit further information

See the step-by-step guidance below of how to submit further information if requested by a CPD assessor

Be visible, engaged and informed

Aim: We regulate, take and communicate decisions which are informed by a deep understanding of the environment within which our registrants, employers and education providers operate

Registrant snapshot - 4 February 2025

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

Registrant snapshot - 1 December 2024

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

Returning to practice after the pandemic - why we're reinstating a 12-month updating period

As our 12-month updating period comes into effect once more, Policy Manager Madeleine Connor looks back on the COVID-19 pandemic and circumstances that temporarily extended it.

Registrant snapshot - 7 January 2025

Total number of registrants for the HCPC Register, broken down by profession and application route to registration (7 January 2025).

HCPC fitness to practise annual report 2023-24

This annual report provides an account of our work investigating fitness to practise (FTP) concerns raised with us across the 15 professions we regulate.

My Story – Prabha Vijayakumar (South Asian Heritage Month 2024)

Prabha, a registered occupational therapist, shares her journey from India to the UK, and how she discovered her calling.

Registration assessors

Registration assessors assess applications from health professionals who are eligible to apply via the international, EMR or grandparenting application routes

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