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The HCPC has published its Corporate Plan 2025-26, setting out how we will continue to make progress on each of our six strategic priorities over the next year.

The Professional Standards Authority for Health and Social Care (PSA) oversees our work.

Professional bodies typically promote the profession, represent their members and provide curriculum frameworks, training and CPD.

We have significantly expanded the role of equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI), placing specific importance on making sure that practice is inclusive for all service users. This is one theme within the key changes to the updated standards of proficiency for all professions. 

This paper presents highlights from our year in registration survey 2022 (formerly known as the new graduate survey), which seeks the views of those who have been HCPC-registered for a year about their education and training programme, how this prepared them to practice, and the first year in employment. 

A guide for people who use the services of, or are treated, by professionals regulated by the HCPC.

This study aims to generate descriptive statistics for different features of the HCPC’s Fitness to Practise processes and to address some specific questions regarding the factors which impact on costs.

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.

HCPC Policy Manager Tom Miller explains the proposals we are making and why it is especially important to hear from employers and managers of HCPC registrants, who have experience of how the current arrangements are working.

It is important that you get the service user’s permission, or ‘consent’, before you share or disclose their information or use it for reasons which are not related to the care or services you provide for them

Info on joining the Register, renewals, international applicants, period of adaptation and returning to practice

In this webinar we will explore the updated standards' focus on further centralising the service user, and how to integrate these changes into your practice. 

HCPC is delighted to announce the appointment of Andrew Smith as their new Executive Director of Regulation.

The Council has overall responsibility for protecting people using registrants' services