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HCPC Remediation Courses for Allied Health Professionals

Structured CPD for HCPC registrants — across all 15 regulated professions — who need to strengthen knowledge, reflection and evidence of learning following a fitness to practise concern. Self-paced, with a certificate on completion.

Independent CPD provider. Not affiliated with, accredited by, or endorsed by the HCPC or the HCPTS. Course completion does not guarantee any regulatory outcome.

Independent CPD education 28 courses Certificate on completion Counts toward HCPC CPD
Course selection

Choose a Course Based on Your Concern

Not sure which course is relevant? Start with the concern or learning need that best matches your situation. This is a guide to help you narrow the catalogue — it does not determine what you must complete for any regulatory purpose.

A structured starting point · 8 courses · ~13.5 CPD hours

The Core HCPC Remediation Set

A structured starting point for developing insight, documenting learning and demonstrating practical steps toward improvement — covering the two HCPC-specific courses plus insight, reflection, remediation, the FtP process and rebuilding trust. Choosing the set does not, by itself, satisfy any HCPC requirement; relevance depends on your circumstances.

Insight in Healthcare CPD Course 20261.5 CPD pts · £65 · certificate
Reflective Practice in Healthcare CPD Course 20261.5 CPD pts · £65 · certificate
Remediation in Healthcare CPD Course 20261.5 CPD pts · £65 · certificate
Preventing Repeated Mistakes CPD2 CPD pts · £65 · certificate
Fitness to Practise CPD Course2 CPD pts · £65 · certificate
Rebuilding Trust CPD Course2 CPD pts · £65 · certificate
HCPC Ethics CPD Course2 CPD pts · £65 · certificate
HCPC Professionalism CPD2 CPD pts · £65 · certificate
Full catalogue · 28 courses

Explore All 28 Courses

Every course shows its CPD hours, price and certificate information, and awards verifiable CPD for your HCPC record. Browse by category below.

Showing all 28 courses, grouped into 6 areas

Ethics, consent & professional decision-making5 courses

For registrants whose concern involves ethical judgement, valid consent, dignity or the service-user relationship.

2 CPD ptsCPD accredited

HCPC Ethics CPD Course

For registrants whose concern involves ethical judgement, valid consent, dignity or the service-user relationship.

The HCPC Standards of Conduct, Performance and Ethics set out the ethical expectations for every registrant. This course works through them as the HCPC applies them in fitness to practise cases, showing where ethical practice most often breaks down.

  • The ethical standards every HCPC registrant is held to
  • How honesty, consent and confidentiality feature in HCPC referrals
  • Writing an ethical reflection that speaks to the HCPC Standards
CPD certificate on completion · 2 CPD pts
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2 CPD ptsCPD accredited

Healthcare Ethics CPD Course

For registrants whose concern involves ethical judgement, valid consent, dignity or the service-user relationship.

When a concern spans multiple ethical areas rather than one specific principle, a comprehensive ethical foundation makes your remediation response more credible. Covers moral reasoning frameworks and how regulators actually apply them when assessing fitness to practise.

  • Moral reasoning frameworks professionals use when facing ethical dilemmas
  • How regulators weigh ethical conduct across every domain of their standards
  • Duty of candour - what it requires and how failures escalate to formal concerns
CPD certificate on completion · 2 CPD pts
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2.5 CPD ptsCPD accredited

Medical Ethics CPD Course

For registrants whose concern involves ethical judgement, valid consent, dignity or the service-user relationship.

At 2.5 CPD hours, this is the most substantial ethics course available. Written for UK healthcare professionals facing a substantive regulatory concern where a panel hearing is likely. Covers the full range of ethical obligations - from end-of-life and capacity decisions to research ethics to financial conduct.

  • End-of-life decisions, patient capacity and best interests assessments
  • Research ethics, data protection and obligations beyond the consulting room
  • Building an ethical framework that withstands regulatory scrutiny
CPD certificate on completion · 2.5 CPD pts
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2.5 CPD ptsCPD accredited

Professional Ethics CPD Course

For registrants whose concern involves ethical judgement, valid consent, dignity or the service-user relationship.

Most fitness to practise cases do not arise from clear ethical failures but from grey areas - complex situations where the right course was not obvious. This course addresses the daily ethical decisions professionals face, examining the specific grey areas where most investigations originate.

  • Navigating ethically ambiguous clinical situations without clear right answers
  • Whistleblowing, raising concerns and when the duty of candour applies
  • Managing ethical conflict with colleagues, employers and the system
CPD certificate on completion · 2.5 CPD pts
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1.5 CPD ptsCPD accredited

Privacy, Consent & Chaperone CPD Course

For registrants whose concern involves ethical judgement, valid consent, dignity or the service-user relationship.

Consent failures rank among the most frequent reasons for regulatory referrals. This course covers what valid consent actually requires in UK practice - capacity, information, voluntariness - and examines the specific scenarios where consent most commonly breaks down, including chaperone obligations.

  • What makes consent valid under UK law and professional standards - the three requirements
  • Consent for patients lacking capacity - best interests, deputies and court orders
  • Chaperone obligations - when they apply, how to document them, and what happens when they are not followed
CPD certificate on completion · 1.5 CPD pts
£65
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Professionalism, communication & teamwork5 courses

For registrants whose concern involves conduct, communication, documentation or working with colleagues.

2 CPD ptsCPD accredited

HCPC Professionalism CPD

For registrants whose concern involves conduct, communication, documentation or working with colleagues.

Professionalism spans conduct, communication, boundaries and behaviour toward colleagues. This course grounds those expectations in the HCPC Standards and the day-to-day situations where professionalism concerns arise.

  • What professionalism means under the HCPC Standards
  • Common professionalism concerns and how they escalate to referral
  • Demonstrating professional behaviour has been understood and embedded
CPD certificate on completion · 2 CPD pts
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2 CPD ptsCPD accredited

Healthcare Professionalism CPD Course

For registrants whose concern involves conduct, communication, documentation or working with colleagues.

Professionalism is not one standard but a cluster of behaviours that span every aspect of professional practice - from how you communicate under pressure to how you respond to a colleague in difficulty. This course provides the broad professional grounding that contextualises more specific remediation work.

  • Professionalism in practice - what it looks like when regulators are watching
  • How personal circumstances affect professional performance and what to do
  • The relationship between professional conduct and patient safety outcomes
CPD certificate on completion · 2 CPD pts
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1.5 CPD ptsCPD accredited

Effective Communication in Healthcare CPD 2026

For registrants whose concern involves conduct, communication, documentation or working with colleagues.

Communication failures underlie more regulatory concerns than almost any other single factor. Inadequate information, failure to listen, poor handling of complaints - each can independently generate a formal concern. This course examines where communication most commonly breaks down and what effective professional communication requires under your regulator's standards.

  • Communication standards required under the Practise Effectively domain
  • Breaking bad news, handling complaints and difficult conversations professionally
  • How poor written communication in referrals and records escalates into concerns
CPD certificate on completion · 1.5 CPD pts
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1.5 CPD ptsCPD accredited

Teamwork & Collaboration CPD Course

For registrants whose concern involves conduct, communication, documentation or working with colleagues.

Working effectively with colleagues - teamwork, delegation, supervision and raising concerns - is a core expectation in every regulator's standards. When concerns involve behaviour toward colleagues, this is the area under scrutiny. This course examines what it requires and how to demonstrate genuine improvement.

  • What working effectively with colleagues actually requires under professional standards
  • Accountability in hierarchical clinical environments - delegation and supervision
  • Raising concerns about colleagues - when, how, and the professional obligation to do so
CPD certificate on completion · 1.5 CPD pts
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1.5 CPD ptsCPD accredited

Documentation Professionalism CPD

For registrants whose concern involves conduct, communication, documentation or working with colleagues.

Poor documentation features in a significant proportion of regulatory investigations - either as the primary concern or as an aggravating factor. This course examines what professional record-keeping requires, the specific failures that most commonly arise, and how documentation quality affects how regulators assess your overall professionalism.

  • Regulator expectations for clinical records - accuracy, completeness and timing
  • How to amend records appropriately without creating additional concerns
  • Why documentation quality directly affects how case examiners assess your honesty
CPD certificate on completion · 1.5 CPD pts
£65
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Probity, honesty, candour & integrity3 courses

For registrants whose concern involves honesty, candour, accurate information or financial integrity.

2 CPD ptsCPD accredited

Probity CPD Course for Healthcare Professionals

For registrants whose concern involves honesty, candour, accurate information or financial integrity.

When regulators use the word probity, they mean more than honesty - they mean the fundamental trustworthiness that underpins the entire professional-patient relationship. Probity obligations cover financial conduct, accuracy of information, and how you behave when no one is watching. If your regulator's letter mentions probity, this is your first course.

  • What probity means in regulatory practice - beyond honesty to fundamental integrity
  • Probity obligations in your regulator's standards broken down point by point
  • How regulators weigh probity failures when assessing whether trust can be restored
CPD certificate on completion · 2 CPD pts
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Financial Integrity CPD Course

For registrants whose concern involves honesty, candour, accurate information or financial integrity.

Financial concerns in regulatory investigations cover a specific range of obligations - product or prescribing independence, referral arrangements, undisclosed private interests, and accuracy of financial records. If your concern touches any of these areas, this course addresses the precise obligations under your regulator's standards.

  • Prescribing independence - why commercial relationships create probity risks
  • Private practice, referrals and the disclosure obligations regulators enforce
  • What financial integrity looks like under scrutiny - examples from real cases
CPD certificate on completion · 2 CPD pts
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1.5 CPD ptsCPD accredited

Duty of Candour CPD Course

For registrants whose concern involves honesty, candour, accurate information or financial integrity.

The duty of candour requires professionals to be open and honest with patients when things go wrong - promptly, with an apology, and with an explanation of what happened. Failures in candour compound original errors and are treated seriously by regulators. This course examines exactly what the duty requires and how to apply it.

  • When the duty of candour is triggered and what timely disclosure looks like
  • The difference between a genuine apology and an admission of legal liability
  • How to document your candour response so it is available as remediation evidence
CPD certificate on completion · 1.5 CPD pts
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Fitness to practise, insight, reflection & remediation7 courses

For registrants who want to understand the process and build insight, reflection and remediation evidence.

1.5 CPD ptsCPD accredited

Insight in Healthcare CPD Course 2026

For registrants who want to understand the process and build insight, reflection and remediation evidence.

Case examiners consistently identify insight as the single most important factor when assessing whether a professional can be trusted to practise safely. This module teaches you what genuine insight looks like in a regulatory context - not expressions of remorse, but demonstrable understanding of what happened and why it must not happen again.

  • What your regulator means by insight - and what examiners look for that is not insight
  • The difference between understanding what you did and understanding why you did it
  • How to structure an insight statement that case examiners find credible and specific
CPD certificate on completion · 1.5 CPD pts
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Reflective Practice in Healthcare CPD Course 2026

For registrants who want to understand the process and build insight, reflection and remediation evidence.

Reflection is the foundation of remediation - but most professionals have never been taught how to reflect in a way that produces useful regulatory evidence. This module teaches structured reflection using frameworks accepted in UK practice, applied specifically to the kind of concern that generates investigations.

  • Structured reflective frameworks used in UK practice - Gibbs, Schon, Johns
  • What good reflection says about what changed - not just what happened
  • Maintaining a reflective log throughout an investigation to build ongoing evidence
CPD certificate on completion · 1.5 CPD pts
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Remediation in Healthcare CPD Course 2026

For registrants who want to understand the process and build insight, reflection and remediation evidence.

Remediation is not a checklist - it is a credible body of evidence that tells your regulator a coherent story about change. This module teaches you how to construct that story: what to include, what sequence works, how much is enough, and how to present it so that case examiners can actually evaluate the change you are claiming.

  • What a complete remediation response looks like - components regulators expect to see
  • How to sequence your remediation so early action is visible and credible
  • Presenting your evidence in written submissions and at MPTS hearings effectively
CPD certificate on completion · 1.5 CPD pts
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2 CPD ptsCPD accredited

Fitness to Practise CPD Course

For registrants who want to understand the process and build insight, reflection and remediation evidence.

Most professionals receiving a letter from their regulator have never engaged with the fitness to practise process before. Understanding how the process works - the legal tests applied, the stages, the possible outcomes, your rights - fundamentally changes how effectively you can respond. This course provides that foundation.

  • How a fitness to practise case progresses from referral to outcome
  • The legal test for current impairment and how it differs from past conduct
  • Your rights and obligations at each stage - from interim orders to MPTS panels
CPD certificate on completion · 2 CPD pts
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Preventing Repeated Mistakes CPD

For registrants who want to understand the process and build insight, reflection and remediation evidence.

One of the central questions in every fitness to practise case is whether the same thing will happen again. Case examiners are specifically trained to assess this - and a vague statement that you will be more careful is not an answer. This course teaches root cause analysis applied to your own practice and how to build verifiable personal safeguards.

  • Root cause analysis applied to a specific clinical or professional failure
  • How to identify personal, systemic and contextual factors - not just individual error
  • Designing personal safeguards that are realistic, observable and verifiable by others
CPD certificate on completion · 2 CPD pts
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How to Avoid a Complaint or Investigation CPD 2026

For registrants who want to understand the process and build insight, reflection and remediation evidence.

Most fitness to practise concerns begin with an avoidable complaint. This course looks at the early warning signs, the communication and record-keeping habits that reduce risk, and the practical steps that keep everyday practice from escalating into a formal investigation.

  • The most common triggers behind patient and colleague complaints
  • Communication and documentation habits that prevent escalation
  • How to respond early when concerns are first raised
CPD certificate on completion · 2 CPD pts
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Dealing with a Complaint or Investigation CPD 2026

For registrants who want to understand the process and build insight, reflection and remediation evidence.

When a complaint or investigation does arrive, how you respond shapes the outcome. This course walks through each stage of the process, what your regulator is looking for, and how to prepare a calm, structured, and credible response rather than reacting under pressure.

  • What each stage of a complaint or investigation involves
  • How to prepare a structured, evidence-led written response
  • Managing the process professionally while protecting your wellbeing
CPD certificate on completion · 2 CPD pts
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Professional boundaries, relationships & trust6 courses

For registrants whose concern involves boundaries, relationships, confidentiality, conduct online or rebuilding trust.

2 CPD ptsCPD accredited

Professional Boundaries for Clinicians CPD 2026

For registrants whose concern involves boundaries, relationships, confidentiality, conduct online or rebuilding trust.

Professional boundaries in practice are not instinctive - they require active maintenance. Most boundary violations do not begin as deliberate acts but as gradual drift that goes unrecognised until it has caused harm. This course examines how boundaries erode, what genuine maintenance looks like, and what your regulator expects when concerns have already arisen.

  • How professional boundaries erode gradually - the warning signs most professionals miss
  • Sexual boundaries, physical contact and the legal framework in UK practice
  • What re-establishing boundaries looks like in practice and how to document it
CPD certificate on completion · 2 CPD pts
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Professional Boundaries CPD Course

For registrants whose concern involves boundaries, relationships, confidentiality, conduct online or rebuilding trust.

Boundary violations with patients and colleagues are among the most serious matters regulators investigate - and they rarely happen suddenly. This course examines the gradual erosion that precedes most boundary breaches, and what genuine boundary maintenance requires in professional practice.

  • How professional boundaries erode gradually - the pattern regulators most commonly see
  • Sexual boundaries, personal disclosure and the management of dual relationships
  • Re-establishing appropriate boundaries after a lapse and documenting the change
CPD certificate on completion · 2 CPD pts
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Social Media Professionalism CPD

For registrants whose concern involves boundaries, relationships, confidentiality, conduct online or rebuilding trust.

Online conduct is now one of the fastest-growing categories of regulatory referral. Patient contact via social media, commentary about cases, inappropriate posts, and inadequate anonymisation each carry specific professional risks that most professionals underestimate. This course examines what your regulator expects and where the risks are highest.

  • Regulator social media guidance - what conduct triggers a concern
  • Why any patient contact via social media is a boundary issue regardless of intent
  • Anonymisation requirements - what they actually mean and why most approaches fall short
CPD certificate on completion · 2 CPD pts
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Rebuilding Trust CPD Course

For registrants whose concern involves boundaries, relationships, confidentiality, conduct online or rebuilding trust.

When an investigation has progressed to a review hearing or a panel, the central question shifts from what happened to whether you can be trusted not to let it happen again. This course focuses specifically on the evidence that rebuilds trust - not performative gestures but verifiable, sustained changes that others can confirm.

  • What verifiable trust-rebuilding looks like - what regulator panels actually assess
  • How supervisors, employers and colleagues can provide evidence that supports your case
  • Presenting trust evidence in written submissions and oral hearings compellingly
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Dignity and Non-Discrimination CPD

For registrants whose concern involves boundaries, relationships, confidentiality, conduct online or rebuilding trust.

Concerns about discriminatory treatment, failures to maintain patient dignity, or biased professional conduct are taken seriously by regulators under both their professional standards and the Equality Act 2010. This course examines what non-discrimination and dignity in practice require - and how unconscious bias contributes to concerns that professionals often do not recognise as discrimination.

  • Equality Act 2010 obligations as they apply to professional practice and employment
  • Unconscious bias in clinical decision-making - the evidence and what to do about it
  • Dignity in high-stakes contexts including end-of-life care and psychiatric settings
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Confidentiality in Healthcare CPD Course 2026

For registrants whose concern involves boundaries, relationships, confidentiality, conduct online or rebuilding trust.

Confidentiality breaches are a consistent source of regulatory referrals - from inappropriate disclosures to colleagues, to inadequate data protection practices, to disclosures on social media. This course examines the full scope of your confidentiality obligations and where they are most commonly breached.

  • When patient confidentiality can lawfully be broken - public interest and safeguarding
  • Data protection obligations as they apply specifically to clinical information
  • Managing confidentiality risks in teams, referrals and digital communications
CPD certificate on completion · 1.5 CPD pts
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Clinical competence, safe practice & patient safety2 courses

For registrants whose concern relates to competence, safe/effective practice or patient safety.

2 CPD ptsCPD accredited

Clinical Competence & Patient Safety CPD

For registrants whose concern relates to competence, safe/effective practice or patient safety.

Where concerns relate to clinical competence rather than conduct - errors in clinical judgement, outdated practice, knowledge gaps - the remediation response requires a different approach. You need to demonstrate not just that you understand what went wrong, but that your competence has been objectively assessed and verified as restored.

  • How regulators assess clinical competence concerns differently from conduct concerns
  • Objective assessment, supervised practice and what constitutes competence evidence
  • How to demonstrate that clinical competence has been verified - not just self-assessed
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Safe Prescribing CPD Course

For registrants whose concern relates to competence, safe/effective practice or patient safety.

Prescribing errors are a frequent source of regulatory concern. This course covers the principles of safe, effective prescribing - from decision-making and documentation to monitoring and shared responsibility - and shows how to evidence safe practice as part of a remediation response.

  • Core principles of safe and effective prescribing decisions
  • Documentation, monitoring, and review that reduce prescribing risk
  • How to evidence safe prescribing as remediation for your regulator
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Start here

What Are HCPC Remediation Courses?

Remediation is broader than completing a course. A useful way to think about it is a cycle: understand the concern, identify your learning needs, reflect, apply changes to your practice, and evidence the change over time.

For HCPC registrants, CPD courses can provide structured learning and documentation that may support that process — but their relevance depends on your individual circumstances and the concern involved. These 28 courses translate the HCPC Standards and remediation concepts into self-paced learning, each awarding CPD hours and a certificate.

Key point: a certificate is evidence that learning was completed. It is not, by itself, proof that a concern has been remediated or that you meet the Standards.

See how remediation evidence can be built
Who this is for

Who Might Need Remediation?

Any HCPC registrant can face a concern. Remediation learning is commonly relevant if you are in one of these situations.

A concern has been raised

A referral to the HCPC from an employer, patient, colleague or the police has been made about your conduct, competence or health.

You are preparing evidence

Your defence organisation, union or solicitor has advised you to build structured evidence of insight and remediation ahead of a decision or hearing.

You are strengthening practice

You want to address a learning need proactively — after a reflective discussion, an appraisal action, or a near-miss — before it escalates.

Where remediation fits

HCPC Fitness to Practise Explained

"Fitness to practise" means having the skills, knowledge, character and health to practise your profession safely and effectively. A concern is considered through the HCPC's fitness to practise process; the route and outcome depend on the individual facts.

STAGE 1

Concern raised

A referral from an employer, service user, colleague, the police or another body.

STAGE 2

Triage & threshold

The HCPC screens the concern against its threshold criteria to decide whether to investigate.

STAGE 3

Investigation

Evidence is gathered. An Investigating Committee panel decides whether there is a "case to answer".

STAGE 4

Final hearing

If referred, a panel (Conduct & Competence or Health Committee) hears the case, run by the HCPTS.

STAGE 5

Outcome

The panel decides whether fitness to practise is currently impaired, and any sanction.

Concerns generally fall into a few categories: misconduct, lack of competence, health, a criminal conviction or caution, or a determination by another regulator. Learning and remediation may be relevant to your response, but they do not replace case-specific legal or regulatory advice. Read the HCPC's own explanation ↗

The framework

How the HCPC Considers a Concern

These are key elements a panel weighs. They are not a fixed formula, and outcomes depend on the individual circumstances of each case.

1

The nature & seriousness

What happened, how serious it is, and whether it is capable of being addressed through remediation.

2

Relevant context

The circumstances, systems, workplace pressures or health factors that are relevant to what occurred.

3

Your response & current risk

What you have done since — your insight, remediation, and whether the risk of repetition remains.

The concept that decides most hearings

Current Impairment — the Key Concept

A panel does not only ask "did this happen?" It asks whether your fitness to practise is currently impaired — that is, whether, today and looking forward, there remains a risk to the public or to confidence in the profession.

This is why insight and remediation matter so much. A past act may be serious, yet a panel can find that fitness to practise is no longer impaired where a registrant demonstrates genuine understanding of what went wrong and evidence that it has been addressed. Equally, a relatively minor matter handled with no insight can suggest ongoing risk.

What happened (the facts) Is it capable of remediation? Has it been remediated? Is there current impairment?

This is a general explanation of how impairment is approached, not legal advice. How it applies to your case is a matter for your representative.

Key concepts

Insight, Reflection and Remediation

Panels look for all three. They are not interchangeable, and knowing which one a concern is asking for changes how you respond.

Understanding

Insight

Understanding what happened, why it happened, its impact on service users and public confidence, and what you would do differently. Often the element panels find lacking.

Learning from experience

Reflection

A structured process of learning from experience — considering learning, impact and future practice, rather than a factual narrative of events.

Concrete steps

Remediation

Action taken to address identified deficiencies and reduce the risk of recurrence — CPD, supervision, changes to practice — with evidence it happened.

The question being asked

Fitness to practise

Whether you have the skills, knowledge, character and health to practise safely and effectively. The concern is whether that is currently in question.

The learning cycle these courses support
Learn Reflect Apply Evidence Review
Alignment

How Our Courses Align With the HCPC Standards

The HCPC publishes several sets of standards. Our courses are independently designed to build knowledge across them — they are not HCPC-approved or endorsed.

STANDARDS 1

Conduct, Performance & Ethics

The overarching standards every registrant must meet — honesty, communication, consent, confidentiality, boundaries and raising concerns. Most conduct-based cases turn on these.

STANDARDS 2

Standards of Proficiency

The profession-specific standards defining safe and effective practice in your field. Competence concerns are assessed against these.

STANDARDS 3

CPD Standards

You must keep a continuous, up-to-date record of CPD and be able to show how it has improved the quality and safety of your practice.

ACROSS ALL

Insight & reflection

Reflective practice runs through every standard — the ability to learn from experience and demonstrate it is central to remaining fit to practise.

Read the HCPC Standards on the HCPC website ↗

CPD & the audit

CPD, Remediation and the HCPC CPD Audit

CPD is both a route to remediation and a standing obligation. Understanding the audit helps you keep the right records.

How CPD supports you

  • Structured, dated evidence of learning relevant to the concern
  • Material to write a focused reflective account from
  • Records you can enter directly into your CPD profile
  • Demonstrable steps that may bear on current impairment

What the CPD audit expects

  • At each renewal the HCPC audits a random sample of each profession
  • Selected registrants submit a CPD profile against the CPD standards
  • You must show a continuous record and how CPD benefits practice and service users
  • Certificates alone are not enough — reflection on impact is required

Audit selection and requirements are set by the HCPC and can change — always check the HCPC website for current details before relying on them.

The methodology

Learn → Reflect → Apply → Evidence → Review

CPD is most useful when it feeds a cycle. Here is how a single course becomes part of a documented development record that also satisfies your CPD obligations.

1

Learn

Complete structured CPD relevant to the concern or learning need.

e.g. the Confidentiality course after an information-governance concern.
2

Reflect

Write what the learning means for your own practice.

e.g. what you would now do differently, and why.
3

Apply

Make a practical change or safeguard in your day-to-day work.

e.g. a new check before sharing service-user information.
4

Evidence

Keep the certificate, reflective note and any feedback in your CPD profile.

e.g. ready for an HCPC CPD audit or a hearing bundle.
5

Review

Revisit whether the change has embedded and whether more is needed.

e.g. a follow-up note at your next supervision.
The bigger picture

Building a Remediation Evidence Portfolio

Depending on the concern, useful evidence may come from several sources. CPD is one part of a wider picture.

Concern identified Learning need CPD Reflection Supervision / feedback Changed practice Evidence Review

The appropriate evidence varies by case. Follow advice from your regulator, employer, professional body, union or legal representative where applicable.

The process in detail

The HCPC Investigation Process

Knowing the stage you are at helps you focus your response and your evidence.

1

Referral & threshold

The HCPC receives a concern and screens it against its threshold criteria to decide whether it meets the standard for investigation.

2

Investigation

Information is gathered from the parties. You will usually be invited to respond — this is a key point at which insight and early remediation can be shown.

3

Case to answer decision

An Investigating Committee panel decides, on the papers, whether there is a "case to answer". If not, the case is closed.

4

Final hearing

If referred, a panel hears the case, decides the facts, whether fitness to practise is currently impaired, and any sanction.

Can happen early

Interim Orders

An interim order can be imposed before any facts are decided

Where it is considered necessary to protect the public, in the public interest, or in your own interests, a panel can impose an interim suspension or interim conditions of practice while the investigation continues. It is protective, not a finding against you — but it affects your ability to work and usually comes with a short timeframe. Contact your indemnity provider, union or a specialist solicitor as soon as you are notified, before doing anything else.

The hearing

HCPTS Hearings & Possible Outcomes

The Health and Care Professions Tribunal Service (HCPTS) runs hearings for the HCPC. A panel first decides the facts, then whether fitness to practise is currently impaired, and only then considers a sanction.

Where impairment is not found

  • No further action — the case is concluded
  • Where appropriate, mediation may be used
  • Strong insight and remediation are central to reaching this point

Sanctions a panel may impose

  • Caution order (for a set period, typically 1–5 years)
  • Conditions of practice order
  • Suspension order
  • Striking-off order (removal from the Register)

Sanctions are decided by the panel on the facts of each case and the HCPC's sanctions policy. This is a general summary, not advice on your case or a prediction of outcome.

Every HCPC profession

Courses for Your HCPC Profession

The HCPC regulates 15 professions. The courses use scenarios and language that fit allied health practice, and apply across all of them.

PTPhysiotherapists
PARAParamedics
OTOccupational therapists
RADRadiographers
SLTSpeech & language therapists
BMSBiomedical scientists
DTDietitians
PSYPractitioner psychologists
ODPOperating department practitioners
PODChiropodists & podiatrists
CSClinical scientists
ATArts therapists
ORTOrthoptists
P&OProsthetists & orthotists
HADHearing aid dispensers
AWDr Anthony Whitfield, course author and facilitator
Developed by experienced healthcare professionals

Dr Anthony Whitfield

MBBS · MRCGP · PG Cert Healthcare Law & Ethics · MFFLM

IRR Practice courses are written and reviewed by Dr Anthony Whitfield, a practising clinician with 29 years of experience across clinical practice, healthcare education and regulation.

His postgraduate training in healthcare law and ethics, and membership of the Faculty of Forensic and Legal Medicine, inform how each course connects everyday allied health practice with the standards you are measured against. Regulatory content is written to reflect current published HCPC guidance and reviewed when that guidance changes.

29 years' experienceClinical & healthcare educationHealthcare law & ethicsFaculty of Forensic & Legal Medicine
Content last reviewed against current HCPC guidance: September 2026
Learner feedback

What HCPC Registrants Say About the Learning

Permission-based feedback about the courses as learning. Anonymised where identity cannot be shown, and describing the learning experience only — not any regulatory result.

★★★★★
"Clear and directly relevant to allied health practice. The reflection prompts helped me put my learning into my own words, which was exactly what my CPD profile needed."
Physiotherapist
Verified learner · 2026 · shared with permission
★★★★★
"I could start the same evening and work at my own pace. The certificate plus my reflective note gave me something concrete to bring to supervision."
Paramedic
Verified learner · 2026 · shared with permission
★★★★★
"Written by someone who clearly understands both practice and the regulatory side. The structure made reflection far less daunting than doing it from scratch."
Radiographer
Verified learner · 2026 · shared with permission
FAQs

Frequently Asked Questions

No. The courses are independently provided CPD education and are not approved, accredited or endorsed by the HCPC. They are CPD accredited as continuing professional development, which is separate from any regulator.
They may provide relevant structured learning and evidence of CPD, depending on your individual circumstances. No course can guarantee a regulatory outcome.
Yes — each course awards verifiable CPD hours and issues a certificate you can record in your CPD profile. Remember the HCPC CPD standards require you to reflect on how the learning benefits your practice and service users, not just to list activities.
No. Completing a course may support learning, but insight is demonstrated through your own understanding, reflection, response and actions.
Start with the Core Set, then use the concern selector to match the concern raised. If you don't yet know how the HCPC has categorised your case, choose the general option, or contact us for guidance.
No. They are educational CPD and are not a substitute for case-specific legal or regulatory advice from your defence organisation, union or solicitor.
No. Outcomes are determined by the HCPC's process and the individual circumstances of the case.
Access is immediate on purchase. Each course is £65, and you only pay for the courses you choose.

Find the Right Course for Your Professional Development

Start with the concern or learning need you want to address. Review the recommended courses, choose the learning relevant to your circumstances, and build evidence of development over time.

IRR Practice is an independent CPD provider. We are not affiliated with, accredited by, or endorsed by the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) or the Health and Care Professions Tribunal Service (HCPTS). Our courses provide educational and professional-development content only. Course completion does not guarantee any outcome in an HCPC concern, fitness to practise case, HCPTS hearing, CPD audit or other regulatory matter. The relevance and weight of any learning evidence depends on the individual circumstances. For case-specific legal or regulatory advice, seek advice from an appropriately qualified professional.

Page content last reviewed against current published HCPC guidance: September 2026.

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