Consultation on our proposals for post-registration qualifications

Released on - 01/11/2010

01/11/2010 - 01/02/2011

This consultation has now closed.

We are consulting on our proposals for post-registration qualifications.

Post-registration qualifications are those which individuals undertake once they are registered with us. They often allow registrants to extend their scope of practice into areas not covered by their initial pre-registration training. In some circumstances we are required by law to ‘annotate’ post-registration qualifications on our Register so that members of the public or employers can check that an individual has the necessary qualification.

We are consulting on criteria that we will use to decide whether we annotate a post-registration qualification on our Register. We are seeking the views of stakeholders to assist us in shaping the draft criteria which we will use to make decisions about whether a qualification is annotated. We are also seeking the views of stakeholders on potentially annotating qualifications in neuropsychology and podiatric surgery on our Registers.

We are inviting all stakeholders with an interest to respond to this consultation. We will consider your comments carefully and use these comments both to help us to shape our criteria and also to help us to decide whether to annotate these post-registration qualifications. We look forward to receiving your response.

You can download a copy of the consultation document and a consultation response form below.

If you would like to respond to the consultation please send your response to:

Consultation on proposals for post-registration qualifications
Policy and Standards Department
Health Professions Council
Park House
184 Kennington Park Road
London
SE11 4BU

You may also email responses to consultation@hpc-uk.org or send a fax to +44 (0)20 7820 9684

If you would like to request hard copies, or alternative formats, of the consultation document, you can do so by emailing the address above or by calling 020 7840 9815.

The deadline for responses to the consultation was 1 February 2011.

Formal apology from AfPP

AfPP would like to formally apologise to all podiatric surgeons for any offence caused through misleading comments made in our original response to the HPC Consultation.  The revised response which has been forwarded to the HPC is below.  Please be assured that any misleading information within the response was wholly unintentional and we are grateful for the support  of The Society of Chiropodists and Podiatrists in offering greater clarity regarding these inaccurate statements.