Professionalism in healthcare professionals
- Adherence to ethical practice
- Effective interactions with patients and service users
- Effective interactions with staff
- Reliability, and commitment to improvement
Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) regulation:
- Set legal requirement for competence in a defined scope of practice e.g. BMS
- State protected title
- Set standards of proficiency
- Approve integrated degrees
- Set Standards of Education and Training
- Audit compliance with CPD requirement
Institute of Biomedical Science (IBMS):
- Define a code of professional practice
- Set professional standards of practice
- Award professional qualifications
- Accredit degrees
- Define professional knowledge and skills
- Promote professional education and training
- Provide a CPD scheme
IBMS code of conduct - professionalism:
- Uphold the name and reputation of the Institute of Biomedical Science and the biomedical science
profession and practice according to its responsibilities, standards, ethics and laws
- Maintain the highest standards of professional practice and act in the best interests of patients, the service
and other professionals
- Respect the confidentiality of patients, employer, and service users unless disclosure is permitted by law and
justified in the patient’s interest
- Not practise, nor impose upon others to practise in conditions where professional integrity, standards and
laws would be compromised
- Adherence to ethical practice
- Effective interactions with patients and service users
- Effective interactions with staff
- Reliability, and commitment to improvement
Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) regulation:
- Set legal requirement for competence in a defined scope of practice e.g. BMS
- State protected title
- Set standards of proficiency
- Approve integrated degrees
- Set Standards of Education and Training
- Audit compliance with CPD requirement
Institute of Biomedical Science (IBMS):
- Define a code of professional practice
- Set professional standards of practice
- Award professional qualifications
- Accredit degrees
- Define professional knowledge and skills
- Promote professional education and training
- Provide a CPD scheme
IBMS code of conduct - professionalism:
- Uphold the name and reputation of the Institute of Biomedical Science and the biomedical science
profession and practice according to its responsibilities, standards, ethics and laws
- Maintain the highest standards of professional practice and act in the best interests of patients, the service
and other professionals
- Respect the confidentiality of patients, employer, and service users unless disclosure is permitted by law and
justified in the patient’s interest
- Not practise, nor impose upon others to practise in conditions where professional integrity, standards and
laws would be compromised
