Academic Registrars Council – Subjects Allied to Medicine meeting 30 October 2012 Update from the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) Brendon Edmonds, Head of Educational Development

Content of presentation 1.New professions 2.Policy developments 3.Communication developments 4.Questions

New Professions

Transfer of social workers in England: Abolition of General Social Care Council and transfer of registrants and regulatory functions Protected title: Social worker Regulation extends to England only Registrants – approximately 84,000 Memorandum of Understanding with other Care Councils

Name Change “Regulating health, psychological and social work professionals”

HCPC Register from 1 August ,000* registrants from 16 professions (*estimated)

Approved programmes for social workers in England Transitional approval Monitoring processes not applicable until approval confirmed Social work pre-registration programmes will be visited over a period of three academic years ( ) Approximately 280 programmes and 85 visits Visitor recruitment (approximately 25)

Allied Mental Health Professionals (AMHPS) The HCPC is now responsible for setting criteria against which AMHP programmes should be approved. We intend to develop our own criteria over the next 18 months Interim criteria. This is based partly on the GSCC requirements for AMHP programmes and partly on our own standards of education and training We intend to schedule approximately 25 approval visits for 30 programmes over a period of two academic years from September 2013 to June 2015

Number of approved programmes

Social work student suitability scheme Transitional arrangement Education providers make admissions and suitability decisions The HCPC will not register students – we will hold a prohibited list In exceptional circumstances the HCPC will: - provide advice to education providers on admissions - investigate a complaint about student conduct Education providers must: - notify the HCPC if they exclude a student from a programme or a student withdraws during proceedings - check if an applicant appears on the prohibited list

Policy Developments

Service user involvement consultation and new standard Lay visitor involvement in our approval and monitoring activities Voluntary registers: adult social care workers Post-registration annotations: Podiatric surgeons Standards of Proficiency and Standards of Conduct, Performance and Ethics review consultations Independent prescribing HCPC position statement on NHS Clinical Leadership Competency

Service user involvement consultation and new standard 2009: The HCPC Education and Training Committee considered current guidance and further options regarding service users June October 2011: Lay pilot conducted March 2011 – March 2012: Research study undertaken March – July 2012: HCPC Committee / Council discussions and decisions on overarching principles September – December 2012: Public consultation 2015: Proposed standard of education and training 3.17 would become effective

Lay visitor involvement in our approval and monitoring activities Non-registrant with an understanding of the educational setting Pilot of lay visitors during academic year Impact of lay visitors on our approval process ETC March 2012 Review of lay visitor definition

Voluntary registers: adult social care workers Adult social care workers: includes staff who work with adults in residential care homes, in day centres and who provide care in someone’s home. Health & Social Care Act 2012 & ‘Enabling Excellence – Autonomy and Accountability for Healthcare Workers, Social Workers and Social Care Workers’ command paper Voluntary Registration HCPC – negative licensing model Council for Healthcare Regulatory Excellence (CHRE)* * To be renamed to the Professional Standards Authority for Health and Social Care from 1 December 2012

Post-registration annotations – Podiatric surgery In May 2012, the HCPC Council agree that we should annotate the Register to show those registrants who had gained the Certificate of Completion in Podiatric Surgical Training Annotation is due to take effect from 2014, which means visits will not take place until Autumn 2014 However, as this is a new type of qualification we will be undertaking a lot of preparatory work in the coming months. This will include preparation of separate standards linked to the annotation, further engagement with stakeholders and a consultation process

Post-registration annotations – Podiatric surgery 2010 – 2012: Initial developments 2012 – 2014: Production of standards Spring 2014: Approval visits to programmes begin Winter 2014: First programmes will be approved

Standards of proficiency – rolling review and consultation 2009 – 2010Review of 15 overarching generic standards 2012 – 2014 Review of profession specific standards (i) Public consultations (ii) Committee / Council decision (iii) Roll-out

Standards of conduct, performance and ethics consultation 2003: Date of first publication : Review of standards 2008: Date of re-publication : Review of standards (i) Research (ii) Working group (PLG) (iii) Consultation

Independent prescribing September 2010: The HCPC agree to prepare standards for supplementary and independent prescribers July 2012: Department of Health announce legislation will change to allow chiropodists / podiatrists and physiotherapists to be annotated as independent prescribers October 2012 – January 2013: Consultation for the new standards for prescribing (supplementary and independent) April 2013: Provisional date for publication of new standards. Training for independent prescribing available from autumn 2013 Current arrangements for supplementary prescribers (annotation of the HCPC Register) and impact on approval and monitoring work including visitor recruitment (nurses, pharmacists)

HCPC position statement on NHS Clinical Leadership Competency Framework (CLCF) The HCPC are supportive of the CLCF’s emphasis on shared responsibility and accountability at all levels in contributing towards good quality services and improved outcomes for service users. We consider it to be an important resource for registrants, commissioners and education providers Education providers are not required to demonstrate delivery of CLCF for programmes to become or remain approved by the HCPC because we consider our standards of proficiency to already embed many of the competencies outlined in the CLCF More details on the HCPC’s position can be found on our website at:

Communication developments

Communication Developments Education annual report 2011 Guidance on health and character Education Seminars Research

Education annual report 2011 A yearly overview and analysis of the key trends from the Education Department’s approval and monitoring processes Designed to help education providers and visitors engage with our processes by highlighting common issues that arise at visits or in monitoring via submissions The Education annual report 2011 is now available to download from our website at:

Guidance on health and character This publication explains our health and character requirements for applicants and registrants April 2011: we removed the requirement to provide a health reference for entry to the HCPC Register and changed the way we considered information provided by applicants 11 April and 1 July 2011: Public consultation on relevant amendments to the principles of self-declaration and our self-referral process 23 May 2012: Date of re-publication

Education Seminars Each year the Education Department delivers seminars which address key themes associated with HCPC approved education and training programmes During the academic year 2012–13 we are travelling around the UK to talk about: - Practice placements - Student fitness to practice - Social work education and training programmes in England

Research Service user involvement in the design and delivery of education and training programmes leading to registration with the Health and Care Professions Council – Kingston University London and St George’s, University of London, June 2012 Student fitness to practise and student registration: A literature review - Prime Research and Development Ltd, February 2012 Professionalism in healthcare professionals, Medical Education Research Group, Durham University – October 2011 For more information:

Questions?

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