1 Introduction
1. On 7 January 2014, the Health Committee held
an accountability session with the Health and Care Professions
Council (HCPC). It is the first such session that the Committee
has held with the HCPC. This accountability session forms part
of the Committee's regular programme of accountability sessions
with health and care regulators. In line with practice for previous
accountability hearings, the Committee did not put out a formal
call for evidence or Terms of Reference for this session, but
issued a press notice in November inviting interested parties
to submit evidence. The Committee received eight submissions of
written evidence.
2. The Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC)
is an independent statutory regulator of 319,637 individuals across
16 health, psychological and social work professions.[2]
The professions are: arts therapists; biomedical scientists; clinical
scientists; chiropodists / podiatrists; dietitians; hearing aid
dispensers; occupational therapists; operating department practitioners;
orthoptists; paramedics; physiotherapists; prosthetists / orthotists;
practitioner psychologists; radiographers; social workers in England;
and speech and language therapists.[3]
2 Figure correct as at 1 November 2013 Back
3
HCPC, (HCP0001), para 2.1 Back
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