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We’re reviewing our sanctions policy to improve consistency and further strengthen decision-making by independent fitness to practise (FTP) panels. The consultation is running from 29 May 2025 to 1 September 2025.

Adam Haxell, Strategic Relationships Lead, sets out the activities in this key period of engagement, to raise awareness of our updated standards and help registrants overcome any barriers they may face in meeting them.

Ruth Clement is Head of Kent Children’s Therapies at Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust. A concern was raised about a HCPC-registered therapist that Ruth line-managed. Here she gives her perspective on the events and shares tips for employers or managers in similar situations.

As an organisation, our aim is to provide the best customer service we can for all our registrants and stakeholders

Our flexible approach takes into account of the broad range of health and care professionals and is based on outcomes

This document gives you more information about disabled people joining the professions that we regulate.

The duty of candour is important for anyone working in health and care, but what does it mean in practice?

Last summer, we asked all pre-registration programmes to plan how they would meet the revised standards of education and training (SETs). From the 2018–19 academic year, we will assess whether your programme has met these standards via our annual monitoring process.

We want to continually improve our support for education providers in meeting our regulatory requirements, and delivering the best programmes they can. A key part of our work is making sure we understand the experience of those going through education programmes.

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

Some of our registrants have been in touch saying they are now in a position to help the NHS and want to know how to offer support