Accreditation decisions

Registers that have applied for accreditation, or applied for a preliminary assessment against Standard One (the public interest test) are listed here.

Organisations may apply for preliminary assessment against Standard One before submitting a full application. More about how we assess against Standard One can be found in our Supplementary Guidance for Standard One. The organisations below have not yet been fully accredited and are not able to use our quality mark. 

• Association of Traditional Chinese Medicine – Standard One provisionally met – (October 2024)
• Interpersonal Psychotherapy UK - Standard One provisionally met – (October 2024)
• Register of Clinical Technologists Standard 1 report – We found that the public interest test was met. In the case of Sonographers, our Accreditation Panel also determined that the risks appear sufficiently high, and potential impacts on patient safety sufficiently great, to recommend that the four UK governments should consider whether accredited registration provides sufficient assurance or whether additional regulatory oversight might be needed – (August 2024)
• Society of Clinical Perfusion Scientists (SCPS) – Standard One provisionally met – (July 2024)
• The Health Practice Associates Council – Standard one provisionally met – (February 2022)

Accredited Registers must notify us of significant changes that may affect whether they meet our Standards – the decisions below relate to such notifications.

• Play Therapy UK – has applied to be assessed for a change they wish to make to their register.
• The National Counselling & Psychotherapy Society (NCPS) – Relationship Therapist (RT) register, Psychosexual and Relationship Therapist (PT) sub-register – (July 2023)
• The National Counselling & Psychotherapy Society (NCPS) – Children and Young People Therapists (CYPTs) / Person-Centred Experiential Therapists (PCETs) – (March 2022)
• The Registration Council for Clinical Physiologists (RCCP) – Clinical Exercise Physiologists (CEPs) – (August 2021)

Registers may appeal decisions we have made in accordance with our Appeals Policy.

• International Foundation for Therapeutic and Counselling Choice – An appeal to a Provisional Standard One Outcome was lodged and part upheld. The decision has been referred to an Accreditation Panel for consideration – (October 2024)

This section lists registers that are no longer part of the Accredited Registers programme. This includes those whose accreditation has been suspended or withdrawn, those that have voluntarily left the programme, and those that have merged with another Accredited Register.

• Alliance of Private Sector Practitioners – Impact Assessment APSP – Withdrew from accreditation as of 31 March 2024
• Federation of Holistic Therapists – Withdrew from accreditation as of 9 January 2022
• Society of Homeopaths – Withdrew from accreditation as of 23 July 2021
• Genetic Counsellor Registration Board – Merged
• Registration Council for Clinical Physiologists – Merged