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Get access to a number of independent support services, resources and useful contacts to help you through the FTP process

Everything you need to support your employees, whether you’re looking for information on the registration process or events to connect with us

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.

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.

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.

We work closely with the other UK health regulators to share best practice in a variety of areas. These include HR, education, equality and diversity, communications and governance.

We've compiled a list of top tips to help make the CPD auditing process as smooth as possible.

But how do you determine what your scope of practice is? This page, and the resources within it, will help.

Case study: An employer raised concerns about an operating department practitioner’s (ODP) conviction of fraud. For this conviction, she was sentenced to 18-months imprisonment and suspended for 24 months.

To mark South Asian Heritage Month 2024, Cynthia Srikesavan, a senior researcher in physiotherapy at the University of Oxford and a registered physiotherapist, shares her journey into healthcare and how her background inspires her work.

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. 

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