HCPC Registration Check / Standards of Proficiency Mapping

A complete pre-submission review or build of your international HCPC application, checked against the HCPC standards of proficiency, so you can submit with confidence and avoid the delays and further-training requirements that catch out unprepared applicants.

What changed in November 2025

Since 20 November 2025, every international applicant must submit a Standards of Proficiency mapping document alongside their application. This is now mandatory, and it has changed what is at stake.

Your mapping document must show, for every standard of proficiency in your profession, exactly where in your application the evidence for that standard can be found. It is a signpost, not a personal statement, and the HCPC's guidance is strict about what it must and must not contain. Applicants who complete it as a narrative, or who leave a standard without a reference, are routinely asked to redo it.

Most importantly, the consequence of getting it wrong has changed. Where the HCPC once responded to a missing standard by asking for more information, a gap in your mapping can now lead directly to a referral to a Test of Competence. That is a significant setback in both time and cost. Submitting a complete and correct application the first time has never mattered more.

This is exactly what our review is designed to prevent.

What we check

We review every element of your application against the HCPC's gold standards, including:

• Your Standards of Proficiency mapping document. We build it with you from the correct HCPC template, or review and correct your existing draft, making sure every standard is evidenced, correctly signposted, and free of the gaps that now trigger a Test of Competence.
• Your Course Information Form. We sense-check it against the standards and against what the HCPC expects a completed, certified form from your awarding institution to contain.
• Your supporting evidence. We identify where a standard is weak or unevidenced, and where the predictable gaps sit for internationally trained applicants, particularly the UK-specific standards such as safeguarding, current UK legislation, equality law, information governance, and the structure of the UK health and social care system.
• Your CPD. Where a gap needs closing, we recommend and help you select the right CPD activities to add to your portfolio.

We then recommend the changes and help you write them before you send your application, so that it goes in submission-ready.

When to use this service

Use it before you submit your HCPC application. It is far easier and less costly to correct an application before it goes in than afterwards, especially once your university has certified and stamped your documents.

How it works

• Email us at hello@qualifiedphysio.co.uk with where you trained, your qualification and how far you have got with your application. We will tell you which option fits before you pay.
• Send us your documents.
• We carry out the review / build, return our changes and check your revised version once.

Your mentor will always work within the deadlines set by the HCPC. The whole process can take several weeks, depending on how much of your evidence is already in place and how much rewriting or additional CPD is needed on your side. Some standards are easier to evidence than others.

Which option?

• Full Review, £320: you have drafted your Standards of Proficiency mapping document and your university has completed your Course Information Form. We check both against the HCPC standards, correct the mapping and show you where the gaps are.
• Full Build, £750: you are starting from scratch, or your draft needs rebuilding. We build your mapping document with you on the official HCPC template, check up to two drafts of your Course Information Form before your university certifies it, and plan how to close any gaps.
• Priority, Review £425 or Build £1,000: for when you need our part done faster. It speeds up our turnaround only. It cannot speed up your university, translator or English test.

Not included: a further full review after new evidence arrives, such as new CPD certificates or a re-issued Course Information Form. We will quote this separately before we start.