As the UK’s largest multi-profession health regulator, the HCPC holds unique data on the shape of the health and care workforce.
Launching today, our new data hub, provides a valuable insight into the 15 health and care professions that we regulate.
Click here to access the data hub
Interactive dashboards
For the first time, employers, professional bodies, unions, policy makers and the public can access key data about different professions, registrants’ characteristics and locations. The hub is an interactive tool which allows users to fully explore data in their own time. The dashboards include:
- Register over time
- Register over time by characteristic, such as age or gender.
- Register over time by characteristic and location
- Diversity data
These dashboards complement existing data published by the HCPC on fitness to practise, education and continuing professional development, which is also being made available through the hub.
Insights
Through sharing our data across the 15 different professions, we will work with the wider health and care sector to spot trends and to better understand the workforce across the UK, helping to support delivery of care, at both a local and national level.
Key insights include:
- Community and preventative care has been boosted with significantly more physiotherapists, dietitians, hearing aid dispensers, and speech and language therapists, having joined the HCPC register since 2020.
- There are now 38% more radiographers since 2020, helping to bolster preventative care, such as screening via mammograms.
- Only Chiropodists and Podiatrists have seen a reduction in numbers (down by nearly 9%) over the last 5 years, caused largely by an ageing workforce and common misperceptions of the profession.
- Since 2019, the number of registered health and care professionals in England and Wales, grew by 20%, compared with 14% in Northern Ireland and 13% in Scotland.
All figures are up to April 2025
User guide
The data on the dashboards has been captured at different timepoints (e.g. post renewal or following registrant surveys) depending on the criteria to create the most accurate picture for users. We have also developed a guide to support people to use the data hub and have also provided some broader context to support any analysis/interpretation of the data.
Feedback
We are encouraging users to provide feedback on the hub to further develop it. Further data and dashboards will be added to the hub in the coming months.
The release of the data comes at a time of change in the health sector with the government due to deliver a new 10-year plan for the NHS and announcing significant reforms.
