Health Care professions and protected titles

Health Care professions and protected titles are sensitive expressions. You must provide an email or letter of authorisation from the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) to use any of these expressions in your company or business name.

Health and Care Professions Council

Address	Registration Department Health and Care Professions Council Park House 184 Kennington Park Road London SE11 4BU
Email	registration@hcpc-uk.org

Protected titles for health care sector in the UK

No	Profession	Protected title
1	Art therapist	Arts psychotherapist, art therapist, drama therapist, music therapist
2	Biomedical scientist	Biomedical scientist
3	Chiropodist/podiatrist	Chiropodist, podiatrist
4	Clinical scientist	Clinical scientist
5	Dietitian	Dietitian, dietician
6	Hearing aid dispenser	Hearing aid dispenser
7	Occupational therapist	Occupational therapist
8	Operating department practitioner	Operating department practitioner
9	Orthoptist	Orthoptist
10	Paramedic	Paramedic
11	Physiotherapist	Physiotherapist, physical therapist
12	Practitioner psychologist	Practitioner psychologist, registered psychologist, clinical psychologist, counselling psychologist, educational psychologist, forensic psychologist, health psychologist
13	Occupational psychologist	Occupational psychologist
14	Sport and exercise psychologist	Sport and exercise psychologist
15	Prosthetist/orthotist	Prosthetist, orthotist
16	Radiographer	Radiographer, diagnostic radiographer, therapeutic radiographer
17	Social worker (in England)	Social worker
18	Speech and language therapist	Speech and language therapist, speech therapist

Company name availability check

You can use the Company name availability checker to check if your proposed company name is still available for registration.

How to register a company?

Concise Accountants provide company formation services. Our accountants will handle the incorporation of your limited company from start to finish. We will also advise you whether your supporting evidence is sufficient to support the use of any of the Health Care professions and protected titles in your company name.

Universally, your company’s registered office must be a real address. Companies House would not accept P O Box numbers as your registered office address.

Maintain your limited company

You would have to submit a few documents with the UK Authorities every year.

Firstly, at every anniversary of your company, you are required to prepare and submit your confirmation statement with Companies House. The confirmation statement is a snapshot of information about your company shares structure, directors, shareholders and registered office.

On the same note, you must also inform Companies House if your company details changed. For example, you appoint a new director or your registered office address has changed.

Additionally, you must submit your company accounts to Companies House and HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC). For HMRC, you must include your corporation tax return together with your company accounts. Concise Accountants offers fixed fee accounts packages to limited companies to take care of your company accounts and corporation tax return. The packages are suitable for startup businesses and small companies. Feel free to contact our accountants to discuss.

Other sensitive or regulated words

Click here for other sensitive words that require you to obtain a consent to use in your company or business name in the United Kingdom.