About us
The Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) is a UK wide, multi-professional regulator, established under the Health Professions Order 2001. Our statutory duty is to protect and promote the health, safety and wellbeing of the public.
The HCPC protects the public by:
- setting the standards for education and training, professional skills, conduct, performance and ethics and continuing professional development for the health and care professions we regulate;
- maintaining and publishing an accurate Register of professionals who meet those standards;
- quality assuring education and training programmes;
- responding proportionately to fitness to practise (FTP) concerns.
We regulate more than 360,000 professionals across a diverse range of professions from the larger professions including Paramedics and Physiotherapists to our smaller but equally important professions including Arts therapists and Orthoptists. All of our registrants add vital resource to the UK’s health and care workforce.
Our vision, mission and values
Vision
The HCPC’s vision is: Protecting the public through evidence-based and proactive regulation, delivered by a patient-centred, adaptable regulator.
Mission
Our mission is to protect the public by approving education programmes, setting and upholding professional standards, using evidence to promote safe and inclusive practice, and taking appropriate action when things go wrong.
The organisation is underpinned by four core values:
- Trusted – We act with integrity, earning confidence by being open, fair and accountable.
- Inclusive – We collaborate with others and champion diversity.
- Compassionate – We treat people with respect, empathy and care.
- Innovative – We seek opportunities to solve problems creatively and foster new ways of working to improve our performance.
These values shape how the HCPC engages with registrants, service users, partners and HCPC colleagues.
Equality, diversity and inclusion
The HCPC is committed to the principle of public appointments on merit with independent assessments, openness and transparency of process and to providing equal opportunities for all, irrespective of race, age, disability, gender, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, religion or belief, sexual orientation and gender reassignment.
We strongly encourage applications from all sections of the community and from people with diverse experience and backgrounds. More information about what equality, diversity and inclusion means to the HCPC, including our equality, diversity and inclusion strategy can be found on our website here.