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We work closely with the other UK health regulators to share best practice in a variety of areas. These include HR, education, equality and diversity, communications and governance.

During the festive period this year we’ll be closing temporarily, beginning at 12 noon on 24 December 2024. We will reopen on 2 January 2025 as normal.

These standards set out, in general terms, how we expect our registrants to behave. We will use them if someone raises a concern about a registrant’s practice, and for decisions about the character of professionals who apply to our Register.

Our new whistleblowing policy provides guidance on what to do if you have a concern about wrongdoing in the public interest.

Our guidance says you should use your “professional judgement” to come to decisions about what is and is not within your scope of practice (the limit of your skills, knowledge and experience). But what does this “professional judgement” look like in practice?

In this webinar we will explore how our standards and guidance require registrants to identify, acknowledge and respond appropriately to concerns about the safety and wellbeing of service users.

Our offices will be closing over the festive period, from 12 noon on 24 December 2020, reopening at 9am on 4 January 2021. Our online services will still available during this time.

Jonny Noble, Head of Professional Practice for the Northern Ireland Ambulance Service (NIAS), shares his insight into supporting CPD effectively in a team.

Case study: An employer raised concerns about an operating department practitioner’s (ODP) conviction of fraud. For this conviction, she was sentenced to 18-months imprisonment and suspended for 24 months.

To mark South Asian Heritage Month 2024, Cynthia Srikesavan, a senior researcher in physiotherapy at the University of Oxford and a registered physiotherapist, shares her journey into healthcare and how her background inspires her work.

It appears that due to a system error the usual direct debit collection for radiographers, orthoptists and paramedics has been claimed a week early. We apologise for any inconvenience that this may have caused.

This page provides information for registrants and answers some frequently asked questions.

Due to planned maintenance to improve our registration services, your online account will be temporarily unavailableon the evening of Thursday 27 April, between 5-8pm GMT. 

Due to planned maintenance work by our system provider, our online registration services will be unavailable on the morning of Thursday 7 November 2023, between 9:00am and 12:00pm midday.