The Health and Care Professions Council is an independent regulator set up by the Health and Social Work Professions Order 2001, SI 2002/254. The HCPC keeps a register for the different health and care professions and only registers practitioners who meet the standards it sets for their training, professional skills, behaviour and health. The HCPC may take action against professionals who do not meet these standards or those who use a protected title illegally.
The professions regulated by the HCPC include:
arts therapists
biomedical scientists
chiropodists/podiatrists
clinical scientists
dieticians
hearing aid dispensers
occupational therapists
operating department practitioners
orthoptists
paramedics
physiotherapists
practitioner psychologists
prosthetists/orthotists
radiographers
speech and language therapists
The Children and Social Work Act 2017 established the regulator Social Work England, which, from 2 December 2019, sets the standards for social workers in England and ensures public protection which includes monitoring and enforcing fitness to practice (see its website). Responsibility for the regulation of social workers in England has therefore transferred from HCPC to Social Work England. See Practice Note:
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