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The HCPTS makes independent decisions about registrants' fitness to practise

Each profession renews at a set time every two years. Find out when you are due to renew

This page provides information about what we mean by 'fitness to practise', and our role in relation to it.

For applicants who trained outside the United Kingdom

We regulate hearing aid dispensers on the basis of their professional title and also their protected function.

Explore common scenarios where a registrant may need to consider making a self-referral

The HCPC takes a proportionate approach to investigating concerns about a registrant’s physical or mental health

We are required to keep case records for a period of time once the case has ended. 

Case study on reporting concerns about the safety or wellbeing of service users, carers or others

Case study on having consent from service users (or other appropriate authority) before any care, treatment or other services is carried out