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Profile of registrant

Health and Care Professions Council

Identification number in the register: 88688587411-23
Registration date: 12/12/11 16:16:00

The information on this organisation was last modified on 15/11/12 09:48:14
The date of the last annual update was 15/11/12 09:48:14


Registrant : Organisation or self-employed individual

Name/company name: Health and Care Professions Council
Acronym: HCPC
Legal status: Statutory body
Website address: http://www.hcpc-uk.org

Sections

Section: III - Non-governmental organisations
and more precisely: Non-governmental organisations, platforms and networks and similar

Person with legal responsibility

Surname, Name: Mr  Marc Seale
Position: Chief Executive and Registrar

Permanent person in charge of EU relations

Surname, Name: Mr  Mark Potter
Position: Stakeholder Communications Manager

Contact details:

Contact details of organisation's head office: 184 Kennington Park Road 
London SE11 4BU
UNITED KINGDOM
Telephone number: (+44) 0845 30 4472
Fax number: (+) 
Other contact information:

Goals / remit

Goals / remit of the organisation: The Health and Care Professions Council is a UK-wide statutory regulator of health and care professionals governed by the Health and Social Work Professions Order 2001. We currently regulate the members of the following sixteen professions:

Arts therapists, biomedical scientists, chiropodists / podiatrists, clinical scientists, dietitians, hearing aid dispensers, occupational therapists, operating department practitioners, orthoptists, paramedics, physiotherapists, practitioner psychologists, prosthetists / orthotists, radiographers, social workers in England and speech and language therapists.

We maintain a Register of professionals, set standards for entry to our Register, approve education and training programmes for registration and deal with concerns where an individual may not be fit to practise. We can take action when an individual misuses a protected title.

Our main role is to protect the health and wellbeing of those who use or need the services of our registrants.
The organisation's fields of interests are:
  • national

Number of persons engaged in activities falling under the scope of the Transparency Register

Number of persons: 3
Complementary information:

Persons accredited for access to European Parliament premises

No accredited persons

Activities

Main EU initiatives covered the year before by activities falling under the scope of the Transparency Register:


- Meeting and briefing MEP's and their assistants
- Meeting and briefing EU Commission staff on the organisational position
- Responding both individually and jointly to EU Commission consultations
- Attending and participating in stakeholder events to further organisational objectives

Fields of interest for e-mail alerts on consultations and roadmaps;

Fields declared by the organisation:
  • Internal Market
  • Public Health

Structure

Total number of members that are natural persons: 180
Number of member organisations:
Member organisations (Number of members) :
The organisation has members/is represented in the following country(countries):
  • UNITED KINGDOM

Complementary information:

Networking

Information on (i) organisation's membership of any associations/federations/confederations or (ii) relationships to other bodies in formal or informal networks.




Alliance of UK regulators in Europe (AURE) www.aure.org.uk
Healthcare Professionals Crossing Borders (HPCB) www.hpcb.eu
BMA European Forum http://www.bma.org.uk/lobbying_campaigning/euro_parliament/Euroforum.jsp

Financial data

Financial year: 04/2011 - 04/2012
Total budget: 20,000,000
of which public financing:
- from European sources:
- Procurement:
- Grants:
- from national sources:
- from local/regional sources:
from other sources: 20,000,000
- donations:
- contributions from members: 20,000,000
Estimated costs to the organisation directly related to representing interests to EU institutions in that year: < 50000  €
Other (financial) information provided by the organisation:


Code of conduct

By its registration the organisation has signed the Transparency Register Code of Conduct.