Trust and accuracy
Editorial policy
How we choose sources, how often we re-check them, how we fix mistakes and why your reflections must stay your own.
Our editorial policy at a glance
This editorial policy explains how Healthcare Practise UK checks regulator facts before they appear on a course page, a regulator page or a tool. It applies to everything we publish on uk.healthcarepractise.com. In short:
- We rely on primary sources: legislation, the regulators' own guidance, tribunal and committee guidance, and the Professional Standards Authority.
- We review regulator facts every quarter and whenever a regulator publishes a change.
- We correct mistakes promptly and record each correction, with its date, in the update log.
- We may use software to help draft text, but a person checks every fact against its source, and we never write anyone's reflection for them.
Healthcare Practise UK is an independent provider. We are not affiliated with, approved by or endorsed by any UK regulator or by the NHS. You can read more about us on the about page.
The sources we use, in order of weight
| Rank | Source type | Examples | How we use it |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Legislation | Acts and orders on legislation.gov.uk | The legal basis for a regulator's powers and duties |
| 2 | Regulator standards and guidance | Good medical practice, the NMC Code, HCPC standards, GDC CPD scheme, GOC CPD requirements | Standards, CPD and revalidation numbers, deadlines |
| 3 | Tribunal and committee guidance | Guidance for MPTS tribunals, NMC FtP library, HCPTS practice notes, Social Work England impairment and sanctions guidance | What decision makers consider: insight, remediation, reflection, risk of repetition |
| 4 | Professional Standards Authority | Section 29 process and guidelines | The oversight role above all nine regulators |
We may read secondary material, such as professional journals or defence-body articles, to understand a topic or spot a change. We do not cite it on the page. If a fact cannot be traced to a primary source, it does not go live; if a source is unclear or we could not confirm it, we mark it for review rather than state it as settled.
We do not copy regulator text or tribunal decisions wholesale. Some regulators, including the GMC, limit reuse of their website content, so we summarise in our own words and link to the original.
What "last checked" means on each page
Every regulator, course, concern and tool page ends with its list of primary sources and a line such as "Last checked against regulator guidance: October 2026". That date means a member of the editorial team opened each listed source in that month and confirmed that our wording still matches it. It does not mean the regulator has reviewed our page.
The regulator pages carry the most time-sensitive facts, such as CPD hours, cycle dates and renewal deadlines, so they are the first pages we re-check when a regulator announces a change.
Review cycle
- Quarterly review. Each quarter we re-open every source on the regulator pages and the CPD tracker rules, and spot-check course and concern pages.
- Change-triggered review. When a regulator publishes new standards, sanctions guidance, CPD rules or deadlines, we review every page that relies on that source, not just the regulator page.
- Reader-triggered review. If you report a possible error, we check it against the source before deciding what to change.
Course descriptions are written from the course files themselves: modules, learning hours and assessment details come from the course, never from guesswork. When a course is revised on the portal, its page here is updated to match.
Corrections policy
If we get something wrong, we fix it and say so. Email support@healthcarepractise.com with the page address, the sentence you think is wrong and, if you can, the source that shows the correct position. You can also use the contact page.
- We check the report against the primary source.
- If the page is wrong, we correct it and update its "last checked" month.
- Corrections that change a fact, such as a CPD number, a deadline or a guidance title, are recorded in the update log with the date and a short description.
- Typos and wording changes that do not change meaning are fixed without a log entry.
Our rules on reflections
Every regulator fact on this site is checked by a person against its primary source before it is published, and again at each review.
Reflections are different. A reflective account, whether for revalidation or for a fitness to practise case, has value only because it is your own thinking about your own practice. Regulators say this directly; the GCC, for example, asks chiropractors for reflections that reflect their own experience rather than generic ones, and the NMC's written reflective accounts must explain what you learned and how you changed or improved your own practice. So:
- Our reflective statement builder gives regulator-specific headings and prompts, plus a check for identifying details. It does not generate text for you.
- We do not offer a reflection-writing service, and course assessments test your understanding rather than producing text you can copy.
Independence and commercial content
We sell courses, and we are open about that. Course recommendations on concern pages and in bundles are chosen by matching course content to the concern, and each recommendation states why the course is included. We do not link to competing course providers.
We never describe our courses as approved by a regulator, never use regulator logos and never promise an outcome. Where we quote what a regulator says decision makers consider, that is a description of their guidance, not a statement that they endorse us.
Frequently asked questions
How often do you re-check regulator facts?
Every quarter, and whenever a regulator publishes a change to standards, CPD rules, deadlines or sanctions guidance. Each page shows the month its sources were last checked.
Why do you only cite regulator and legislation sources?
Because they are the documents decision makers actually use. Secondary articles can be out of date or simplified, so we use them only for background and never as the source of a fact on our pages.
How do I report an error?
Email support@healthcarepractise.com with the page address, the sentence and, ideally, the regulator source that shows the correct position. Factual corrections are recorded in our update log.
Will your reflective statement builder write my reflection?
No. It provides structure, regulator-specific prompts and an anonymity check. The words are yours, which is what regulators expect from a reflection.
Does a regulator review your pages?
No. Our pages are checked against regulator guidance by our own editorial team. No regulator reviews, approves or endorses our content.
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