HCPC Fitness To Practice

A registrant is “fit to practice” if they have the skills, knowledge and character to practice their profession safely and effectively. Fitness to practice is not confined to professional performance as it also includes acts by a registrant which may affect public protection or public confidence in the profession.

Fitness To Practice Process

The HCPC fitness to practice process is designed to protect the public from those who are not fit to practice. Impaired fitness to practice means that there are concerns about a registrants’ ability to practice safely and effectively. This could mean that they should not practice at all or that they should be limited as to what they can do. Every case referred to the HCPC is considered individually however a registrants’ fitness to practice is likely to be impaired if there is evidence of the following:

• Dishonesty, fraud or abuse of trust
• Exploitation of a vulnerable person
• Failure to respect a person’s right to make choices about their own care
• Health issues that may affect the safety of service users
• Mistakes being hidden or steps taken to compromise the investigation
• An improper relationship with a service user
• Reckless or deliberately harmful acts
• Serious or persistent failure to meet standards
• Involvement in sexual misconduct
• Substance abuse
• Violence or threatening behaviour
• Other equally serious activities which may affect public confidence in the profession
• Fraudulent or incorrect entry onto the HCPC register

You may be a health or care professional and you find yourself dealing with issues with your use of protected titles or registration. You may have been referred to the Health and Care Professionals Council for investigation. If so, we can help! Our area of specialism is in the provision of high quality specialist advocacy and advisory services to health and social care professionals. We provide our clients with excellent value for money with the services we offer to clients. We go out of our way to make sure our clients have confidence in our services.
Please contact us as soon as possible if you are facing HCPC Fitness to Practice issues.