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BSHAA Congress, Saturday 16 May 2015. Safeguarding: Protecting the public, regulating the profession Jonathan Jones, Stakeholder Communications Manager The Health and Care Professions Council. Today. The Health and Care Professions Council Our standards and processes
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BSHAA Congress, Saturday 16 May 2015 Safeguarding: Protecting the public, regulating the professionJonathan Jones, Stakeholder Communications ManagerThe Health and Care Professions Council
Today • The Health and Care Professions Council • Our standards and processes • How do we protect the public? • Benefits of regulation for health and care professionals • New professional indemnity requirements • Questions
The Health and Care Professions Council • Independent, 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
HCPC Register 330,887 registrants from 16 professions (as at 1 April 2015)
Standards The Register
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
Benefits of regulation for health and care professionals • Creating 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)
Professional indemnity requirements • Individuals 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 www.hcpc-uk.org
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