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About the Health Professions Council
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The Health Professions Council (HPC) is a new regulator and its job is to protect the health and wellbeing of the people who use the services of the health professionals it registers. At the moment, members of 12 professions are registered by the HPC. However, members of other professions may be registered in the future. The HPC only registers people who meet its standards for their behaviour, professional skills and health. Health Professional on the HPC register are called 'registrants'.
The professions it currently regulates are;
arts therapists, medical laboratory technicians (biomedical scientists), chiropodists and podiatrists, clinical scientists, dietitians, occupational therapists, orthoptists, prosthetists and orthotists, paramedics, physiotherapists, radiographers and speech and language therapists.
The HPC now has the ability to regulate additional professions too. Two professions applications have already been recommended by Council for future regulation through the HPC. They are;operating department practitioners and applied psychologists
Each of the professions listed has at least one professional title which is protected by law. It is a criminal offence to claim to be registered with the HPC if you are not, or to use a protected title, such as physiotherapist, that you are not entitled to use. The HPC will prosecute people who commit these crimes.
For more information please see our website at www.hpc-uk.org
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Professor Norma Brook - HPC President
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