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The HCPC publishes its Environmental Sustainability Statement
The Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) has today published a Sustainability Statement, setting out its commitments
to becoming an environmentally sustainable regulator and the actions it plans to take in support of these commitments.
Chief Executive and Registrar of the HCPC, Bernie O’Reilly,
commented:
“The HCPC has today published our statement on
environmental sustainability, which outlines the actions
we will take to minimise our impact on the environment.
All organisations have a part to play in protecting the
environment, reducing their carbon footprint, consumption of
resources, and their waste and the HCPC is no different. I look
forward to working with our stakeholders including suppliers,
employees, and registrants, to achieve these goals.”
Chair of the HCPC, Christine Elliott, commented:
“To tackle immediate and predictable future challenges,
a focus on sustainability is needed now: sustainability of
the HCPC as an organisation, sustainability of professional
regulation which protects the public, and the wider role of
healthcare in the sustainability of our planet. This Statement
re昀氀ects our commitment towards all of these forms of
sustainability, and resonates with NHS England’s Greener
Allied Health Professional work.”
Environmental Sustainability Statement The Health and Care Professions Council
Commitments
HCPC will work with employees, communities, registrants, service
users, suppliers, and other stakeholders to deliver the aims set out in
this policy statement. In particular, we will:
Organisational
1. Meet applicable compliance obligations, where possible, looking
to exceed these requirements on a voluntary basis that is aligned
with our environmental emissions targets.
2. Commit to the continuous improvement of our environmental
sustainability performance.
3. Provide the necessary resources and support for the initiatives
and programmes designed to deliver our sustainability
commitments.
4. Source goods and services through our procurement activity
in ways which support and re昀氀ect HCPC’s environmental
commitments.
Engagement
5. Promote a culture in the organisation that embeds sustainability
as a core organisational goal.
6. Provide training and support to enable delivery of our
sustainability commitments.
The HCPC aims to be an environmentally sustainable regulator by
minimising negative impacts on our environment. We will improve
our environmental sustainability by working in partnership with our
employees, communities, registrants, service users, suppliers, and
other stakeholders.
Vision
7. Engage our employees and stakeholders to raise awareness of, and
foster support for our sustainability commitments.
8. Engage with HCPC suppliers in respect of their sustainability
performance in support of HCPC’s targets and ambitions.
9. Make this statement publicly available and keep it updated.
HCPC’s vision is to be a high performing, adaptable and caring
regulator that ensures public protection through strong, evidencebased regulation.
Purpose
Our purpose is to promote excellence in the professions we regulate
and champion high-quality care that the public can access safely and
with con昀椀dence.
Goals
We have as one of our goals to build a resilient, healthy, capable and
sustainable organisation. This goal is underpinned by our values of
being Fair, Compassionate, Inclusive and Enterprising.
Our values underpin what we do and how we do it, to help us operate
to high standards and effectively as a regulator and employer.
Actions that we will take in support of these commitments include:
• Achieve carbon net zero in our direct operational energy
emissions by 2028-29;
• Develop energy management practices to reduce or eliminate
dependency on fossil fuels.
• Continue to reduce consumption of resources and emissions
through analysing practices and implementing changes to
operations and business-related travel.
• Support employees in more sustainable work and travel patterns.
• Ensure that our procurement and contract management
policies and processes align with and enable delivery of HCPC’s
sustainability targets and commitments.
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