1 BSHAA Congress, Saturday 16 May 2015Safeguarding: Protecting the public, regulating the profession Jonathan Jones, Stakeholder Communications Manager The Health and Care Professions Council Title slide instructions

2 Today The Health and Care Professions CouncilOur standards and processes How do we protect the public? Benefits of regulation for health and care professionals New professional indemnity requirements Questions

3 The Health and Care Professions CouncilIndependent, UK-wide, statutory regulator Derives powers from Health and Social Work Professions Order 2001 Purpose: “to safeguard the health and well-being of persons using or needing the services of registrants” – Article 3(4) Separate role from professional bodies and trade unions Registered to ISO standards Work overseen by Professional Standards Authority (PSA) Professional and lay input

4 HCPC Register 330,887 registrants from 16 professions (as at 1 April 2015) 4 4

5 Standards The Register

6 How do we protect the public?Professional self-regulation Protecting titles – and function? The fitness to practise process Ensuring continued fitness to practise Promoting your registration

7 Benefits of regulation for health and care professionalsCreating public trust by setting standards Upholding public confidence in you and your profession Consistency in education programmes Value of independent statutory regulation – professional involvement Multi-profession regulation Working abroad Guidance on aspects of regulation (eg CPD, confidentiality)

8 Professional indemnity requirementsIndividuals must determine what is appropriate Most registrants already covered Naturalisation of EU legislation into UK law Applied from June 2014, requirement to make declaration from 1 April 2015 Active for new applications, will be rolled out when next renewing (1 May to 31 July 2016 for hearing aid dispensers) Guidance available at

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10 Are there any questions?Finding out more and getting in touch (lo-call) Find us on Follow Follow us on Sign up for our RSS feeds at So if you have any queries about registration that I can’t answer today, or you think of later, here are the contact details for the registration department. Are there any questions?

11 Thank you www.hcpc-uk.org