What is the difference between registration with the Health Professions Council and the Engineering Council?
The Engineering Council UK (ECUK) exists to regulate the engineering profession in the UK. Its mission is to set and maintain realistic and internationally relevant standards of professional competence and ethics for engineers, technologists and technicians, and to license competent institutions to promote and uphold the standards. ECUK has around 248,000 registrants. The Health Professions Council (HPC) exists to safeguard the health and well-being of persons using or needing the services of registrants. HPC carries out regulation alone though it does involve stakeholders and others in consultation and practical work on several of its committees. The HPC Register has separate sections for each of the thirteen professions it currently regulates, all at the same level. The levels equate to a basic qualification for entry to each profession and do not equate to the standards required for registration with ECUK. Each profession has its own title protected by the statutes which set up the
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