Information for education providers

The HPC's approval and monitoring processes ensure that programmes and education providers meet our standards of education and training.

The approval process involves an approval visit and an initial decision as to whether a programme meets the standards of education and training. A programme is normally approved on an open-ended basis, subject to satisfactory monitoring.

There are also two monitoring processes, both of these processes are documentary and may trigger a new approval visit:

The annual monitoring process is a retrospective process by which we determine whether a programme continues to meet all the standards against which it was originally assessed.

The major change process considers significant changes to a programme and the impact of these changes in relation to our standards.

All of our processes ensure our regulation is robust, rigorous and effective, without being over-burdensome for education providers. Any education provider (e.g. a university, college, private training institution or professional body) can seek approval of their programmes.

The standards of education and training are our standards that an education programme must meet in order to be approved by us. These generic standards ensure that anybody who completes an approved programme meets the standards of proficiency and is therefore eligible for admission to the Register.

The standards of proficiency are our threshold standards for safe and effective practice that all registrants must meet. They include both generic elements, which all our registrants must meet, and profession-specific elements. These standards play a central role in how to gain admission to and remain on the Register and thereby gain the right to use protected title(s).

We've made all our forms and documents available to download in our "documents to download " section