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Case studies that promote and protect the interests of service users and carers

Paul Chapman on the benefits for employers in supporting professionals back to practice

The standards of proficiency that practitioner psychologists must meet in order to join, and remain on, the HCPC Register. 

Info on joining the Register, renewals, international applicants, period of adaptation and returning to practice

A review of the standards of proficiency for social workers in England. This is part of the HCPCs wider review of these standards taking place in 2015 and 2016

The consultation on preceptorship sets out our ambition to construct a set of principles that can support registrants, employers and the wider sector in delivering better healthcare by ensuring healthcare professionals are better supported at key points in their careers.

The first page you’ll see is the ‘Before we begin’ page

We are consulting on proposals to increase our registration fees. If adopted, the changes would be effective from 1 October 2019 and existing registrants would pay the new renewal fee when their profession next renews its registration.

Responding to discussions among our registrants, here’s some background on why some titles are regulated and others not.

Council Apprentice

Case study: Raff is a hearing aid dispenser working in independent practice. He has just started running his own business as a sole practitioner in a remote location in the Scottish Highlands.

Our expectations of education providers delivering training in podiatric surgery and of chiropodists / podiatrists who complete this training