HCPC Standard Changes

Are you familiar with the updated HCPC Standards of proficiency? From the 1st September, the updated standards of proficiency have been implemented. It’s vital that all healthcare professionals who are regulated by the HCPC, are familiar with the changes and understand how they impact their practice. 

The main changes to the standards centre around a greater focus on; 

- A strengthened Equality and Diversity focus – ensuring care provision is accessible and high quality for all service users 

- Health promotion and illness prevention - bringing HCPC registrants in line with the wider healthcare systems’ initiatives  

- Active implementation of the standards. It’s no longer sufficient for registrants to passively understand the standards. It’s imperative to demonstrate their use in your practice 

- Putting patients and service users first - for example, when determining consent and how we approach consent with patients and service users 

- Looking after yourself - registrants physical and mental wellbeing is now central to the standards and all registrants should have a strategy for prioritizing their own health and wellbeing, as part of fitness to practice 

Check out the following link to the HCPC website which provides additional information -  HCPC updates standards of proficiency | (hcpc-uk.org) 

The full standards can be viewed here - Standards of proficiency | (hcpc-uk.org) 

Watch out for resources to help you achieve these goals over the coming months.