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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

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

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. 

Our supervision templates provide some examples of how you might want to structure your supervision sessions and the types of conversations you could have.

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

Total number of registrants for the HCPC Register, broken down by profession and application route to registration (1 April 2025).

This is a recording of an in-depth webinar designed for employers and managers of HCPC registrants, looking at the upcoming changes to the HCPC standards of conduct, performance and ethics and social media guidance, and English language proficiency review consultation. 

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

Provide details of any registration or membership you currently and/or have previously held in countries outside of the UK

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.

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.

Our guidance says you should use your “professional judgement” to come to decisions about what is and is not within your scope of practice (the limit of your skills, knowledge and experience). But what does this “professional judgement” look like in practice?

A professional liaison group (or ‘PLG’) provides advice to the Council or committees on strategic issues. Either the Council, or a committee can decide to set up a PLG, to look at a specific issue and report back.

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

This section is for applicants who have previously been on the Register and would like to re-join it.