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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.

We get many questions about record keeping from registrants. This page runs through the most common questions and signposts to other sources of advice

What we are looking for when you involve service users and carers in your programme

High level principles of good practice expected of everyone when consulting and or prescribing remotely from the patient

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

Our aim to be a high performing regulator which delivers forward-looking regulation underpinned by strong data, collaboration and compassion

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

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.

We all respond differently to pressure or demands that we find difficult to cope with, or situations that we don’t have much control over

Case study: The NHS Counter Fraud Unit of the local NHS Trust raised concerns about a physiotherapist. On numerous occasions, the registrant submitted timesheets and claimed payments for hours they did not work.

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.

We launched a consultation on permanently amending our Rules to give us the express power to hold hearings remotely.