HPC launches new resources for registrants to promote their HPC registration

14/06/2010 - 13:45

New Registration resource launched by the HPC

The Health Professions Council is pleased to announce the introduction of a new resource for individuals on the HPC Register.

The resource includes a new HPC registration logo as well as a dedicated webpage and a leaflet which contain information for registrants on how to promote their HPC registration.

The new HPC registration logo is designed to be simple, bold and recognisable, providing reassurance to the public and differentiating HPC-registered professionals from non-regulated health professionals.

Marc Seale, Chief Executive of the HPC said:

“Registrants can display the new registration logo as a clear sign that they meet the HPC standards. It is definitely a positive new direction and a change that is supported by the public.”

These changes have resulted from consultation and development with both professionals and the public. Results from research carried out by GFK Healthcare said 90 per cent of the public were positive or neutral in their reaction to the logo and three quarters of the public thought it would be a good idea for healthcare professionals to display the HPC registration logo. 

The newly dedicated webpage and supporting leaflet for registrants titled ‘Promoting your HPC registration’ provide registrants with information on how to describe registration, how to access up-to-date registration details through www.hpcheck.org and explains how to use the registration logo.

Within the new webpage registrants can place orders online to request free public information materials for them to display in their place of work e.g. waiting room area.  These recently refreshed promotional materials provide information specifically for the public about the HPC and the benefits of using a registered professional.

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Notes to editors:

1. If you are using the HPCheck logo, please replace it with the new HPC registration logo when you next update your printed materials, and amend any online information as soon as possible.

2. For more information, and to download the new HPC registration logo or order free public information materials, see www.hpc-uk.org/registrants/promoting
 
3. Public information materials were refreshed earlier this year and can be ordered online alternatively you can email us: campaigns@hpc-uk.org or call on: 020 7840 9806.

4. The Health Professions Council (HPC) is an independent, UK-wide health regulator set up by the Health Professions Order (2001). The HPC keeps a register for 15 different health professions and only registers people who meet the standards it sets for their training, professional skills, behaviour and health. The HPC will take action against people who do not meet these standards or who use a protected title illegally.

5. The HPC currently regulates the following 15 professions. Each of these professions has one or more ‘protected titles’. Anyone who uses one of these titles must register with the HPC. To see the full list of protected titles please see: www.hpc-uk.org/aboutregistration/protectedtitles

• Arts therapists
• Biomedical scientists
• Chiropodists / podiatrists
• Clinical scientists
• Dietitians
• Hearing aid dispensers
• Occupational therapists
• Operating department practitioners
• Orthoptists
• Paramedics
• Physiotherapists
• Practitioner psychologists
• Prosthetists / orthotists
• Radiographers
• Speech and language therapists

Amy Morgan
+44(0)20 7840 9137