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Is it the proper function of a regulator to police the performance of contracts between professionals and non-clients, such as their suppliers? You may think not. However, the Health Professions Council (HPC) thinks differently. This body regulates 13 different branches of the healthcare professions, ranging from podiatrists to radiographers.
According to the HPC, failure to honour a contract is a disciplinary offence. Thus, late payment of a debt to a supplier (even with interest) is seen as a breach of Standard 14 of the HPC’s Code of Conduct – the duty to behave with integrity and honesty and keep to high standards of personal and professional conduct at all times – and of Standard 16, damaging the profession’s reputation.
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It would be surprising if a chiropodist whose hourly rate may be as low as £25 should be subject to more stringent rules of financial propriety than, say, a lawyer who earns ten or twenty times as much – and is entrusted with client funds to boot
Re: Late payment to supplier breach of HPC standard
I wonder if the HPC would take action if I was late paying my yearly subscription to the Save the Homeless, Gay, Alcoholic, S & M Whales Society? I keep forgetting to post the renewal form.
Dido
Re: Late payment to supplier breach of HPC standard
Hi Dido,
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Originally Posted by Dido
I wonder if the HPC would take action if I was late paying my yearly subscription to the Save the Homeless, Gay, Alcoholic, S & M Whales Society? I keep forgetting to post the renewal form.
Dido
I have posted your receipt for last years contributions.
Thank you for you generosity,
Sincerely yours,
The mincing, domicile' less, leviathon with a penchant for Merlot.
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Mandy Brooks
Brooks Podiatry
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Suffering a fondness for odd things.
“ Though the mills of God grind slowly;
Yet they grind exceeding small;
Though with patience he stands waiting,
With exactness grinds he all. ”
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