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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.

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

In 2018, we raised the level of qualification for paramedics’ registration. Previously paramedics needed to achieve ‘Equivalent to Certificate of Higher Education’ to become registered. Currently they need to achieve ’Bachelor degree with honours’.

This document provides guidance on our processes when assessing the health and character of people who apply to, or who are on, our Register.

Accredited CPD seminars and live CPD demos at Naidex, Europe’s most far-reaching trade, professional and consumer show dedicated to the care, rehabilitation and lifestyle of people with disabilities

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

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

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

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

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

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 (4 March 2025).