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To mark South Asian Heritage Month 2025, Preetpal Sooch, Head of Podiatry at Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust, shares how her Sikh upbringing and cultural heritage have shaped her leadership journey in the NHS and her commitment to representation and equity across healthcare.

Equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) is an important area to the HCPC, to ensure learners are properly supported and prepared for practice. We have identified good practice and challenges with education provider approaches to embedding EDI into their programmes.

We have developed an eLearning module which combines a refresher on EDI and includes aspects of unconscious bias and sexual harassment. In addition, all partners have to receive training on information security as they deal with information on behalf of the HCPC.

Our website accessibility statement outlines the standards we follow, areas for improvement, and how we’re working to make our websites and digital content more accessible.

Gillian Reeley is a HCPC registered occupational therapist working for Aberdeen Royal Infirmary, NHS Grampian.

How we consult and how to get involved

As a registered professional, it is your responsibility to maintain appropriate professional boundaries with service users, carers and colleagues.

We want to exhibit empathy in all our interactions, demonstrate fairness in all that we do, and cultivate professionalism through a supportive, transparent and collaborative approach

In a few circumstances, professionals will need to apply for dual registration

Step-by-step process on making a self-referral

Registrant Council member

What education and training programmes must do to prepare students for professional practice