Update from the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) Academic Registrars Council – Subjects Allied to Medicine meeting 23 October 2014 Update from the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) Abigail Gorringe, Director of Education

Content of presentation Policy developments Profession specific updates Communication and governance updates Questions

Policy developments

Policy developments Service user and carer involvement Lay visitors Reviews of existing standards standards of proficiency standards of conduct, performance and ethics standards of education and training Proposed new standards podiatric surgery ‘Non medical’ public health specialists Professional indemnity

Service user and carer involvement SET 3.17: Service users and carers must be involved in the programme Phased introduction across three academic years 2014-15 - approval visits 2015-16 - approval visits and annual monitoring 2016-17 - approval visits and annual monitoring Meetings with service user and carers at visits Seminars, web pages, signposting and on-line video

Lay visitors Appointed and trained 17 lay visitors Lay visitor on all approval visits from September 2014 onwards Three visitors panel Review and assess all standards and all professions

Standards of proficiency – rolling review 11 professions republished: orthoptists, dietitians, arts therapists, physiotherapists, radiographers, chiropodists / podiatrists, prosthetists / orthotists, speech and language therapists, operating department practitioners, paramedics & hearing aid dispensers Education providers to confirm via annual monitoring in 2014-15 and 2015-16 academic years Biomedical scientists and clinical scientists due for republication on 1 December 2014 Practitioner psychologists due for republication on 1 April 2015

Standards of conduct, performance and ethics Three phases External and internal research period Professional Liaison Group Public consultation Anticipated new standards published and effective from January 2016 Anticipated review and consultation on ‘guidance on conduct and ethics for students’ between January and September 2016

Standards of education and training (SETs) review Three year review – 2014 to 2017 Anticipated effective date - 2017-18 academic year Three phases External and internal research period Professional Liaison Group Public consultation Commissioned research Interprofessional education Preparation for practice

Standards for podiatric surgery Current consultation open until 16 January 2015 Anticipated standards approved by Education and Training Committee and Council in March 2015 Anticipated publication of standards in June 2015 Anticipated approval visits to programme(s) in 2015-16 academic year Annotation of the register in 2016

‘Non medical’ public health specialists Potential 17th profession Government decision in 2012 to statutorily regulate public health specialists who are not already regulated with the GMC and GDC Current Department of Health consultation open until 14 November 2014 Outcome of consultation and legislative timetable will determine whether and when the register opens

Professional indemnity New statutory requirement All registrants (except social workers in England) to have appropriate professional indemnity cover as a condition of registration Self declaration at point of registration and renewal Future rule changes to enable appropriate action if no cover in place

Profession specific updates

Profession specific updates Social workers in England Approved mental health professionals (England) Supplementary and independent prescribing Paramedics

Social workers in England We have visited 192 programmes at 61 education providers 162 (86%) transferred from the GSCC 26 (14%) were new programmes 95% of programmes were required to meet conditions before approval was granted 2% of programmes were approved without conditions being set 3% of programmes withdrew their request for approval either at or shortly after the visit so no final outcome was made 55 programmes which transferred from the GSCC have closed to future intakes We have approved 26 new programmes – 25 (89%) at postgraduate level and 3 (11%) at undergraduate level.

Social workers in England continued … 1054 conditions were set across 182 programmes. This equates to an average of 5 conditions per programme. The breakdown of conditions across the broad sections of the standards are as follows - programme management and resources (32%); assessment (27%); admissions (17%); practice placements (16%); curriculum (7%) and level of qualification (0%). Detailed review report to be published in late autumn 2014 Comprehensive review of all three years in late 2015

Approved Mental Health Professionals (AMHPS) Our approval criteria for AMHP programmes in England was published in September 2013 We visited 17 AMHP programmes at 11 education providers in the 2013-14 academic year Detailed review report to be published in late autumn 2014

Supplementary and independent prescribing Independent prescribing rights extended to chiropodists / podiatrists and physiotherapists in August 2013 Standards for prescribing published in August 2013 Amended documentary approvals process agreed in summer 2013 We approved 86 independent prescribing programmes (including ten conversion programmes and 17 with a supplementary prescribing exit point) in the 2013-14 academic year Detailed review report to be published in late autumn 2014

Paramedics SET 1 - Threshold level of qualification for entry to the Register - ‘Equivalent to Certificate of Higher Education’ Education and Training Committee discussions in June and September 2014 on reviewing the current level Any decision to make a change will require a public consultation beforehand

Communication and governance updates

Communication and governance updates Internal resources and guidance External reviews and reports Council structure and recruitment

Education – quality assurance resources Education annual report Published in May 2014 You tube video Education seminars 8 seminars in autumn 2014 6 on service user and carer involvement 2 for social worker and AMHP programmes planning an approval visit Date Location 28 October Newcastle 18 November Edinburgh 25 November Reading 2 December Cardiff

Guidance for disabled people wanting to become health and care professionals Two phase review External research Public consultation Research published on line in August 2014 Current consultation open until 16 January 2015 Anticipated publication of guidance in May 2015

External reviews and reports Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust Public Inquiry Independent reviews on social work education commissioned by the Department of Health and the Department of Education Law Commission bill Professional Standards Authority (PSA) performance review 2013/14 Health Select Committee accountability hearing

Council Newly structured Council in January 2014 12 members (6 lay & 6 registrants) Two statutory committees - Education & Training and Audit Four new members in January 2015 (3 lay & 1 registrant) New chair in July 2015

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