Monitoring Report - Health and Care Professions Council 2024/25

We have published our most recent performance review report for the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC).

Key statistics

• The HCPC regulates the practice of 15 allied health professions in the United Kingdom
• There were 356,104 professionals on its register (as at 31 March 2025)

Key findings and areas for improvement

Fitness to Practise

The HCPC did not meet Standard 15 again this year because it is still taking too long to process fitness to practise (FTP) cases, despite the significant efforts the HCPC has made in recent years. We have escalated our concerns to the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care.

The HCPC enhanced its controls and strengthened its oversight of high-risk cases handled by its external legal providers, following issues we highlighted in our last performance review. Although we considered one case in which some of these additional controls failed to identify that an interim order (IO) application was appropriate, this was picked up by another layer of control and then the HCPC promptly applied for an IO. We concluded that, on balance, Standard 17 was met.
 

Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

The HCPC performed strongly against our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) Standard (Standard 3). We saw examples of good practice, particularly the development and publication of its diversity data dashboard, which allows users to filter the HCPC’s registrant data by a broader range of characteristics. We also welcome the HCPC’s actions to address the opportunities for improvement we identified last year.

Managing risks to the public

The HCPC launched a new online Sexual Safety Hub. The hub is designed to raise awareness of the impact of sexual misconduct and to provide guidance, signposting and information about how to raise concerns – both for registrants and the public.