Is it possible to be a working Paramedic and not appear on the HCPC register?

If so, under what circumstances would this be the case?

Not legally in the UK no. It’s a registered profession and a protected title.

However… Not everyone in green is a Paramedic. Nurses, Doctors, Army combat medics etc often fill roles (particuarly on private vehicles). Its a bit of a murky underworld full of loopholes and clauses. But as Drac says, anyone identifying specifically as a Paramedic should be registered and identifying as a Para without registration is a legal issue. Reg number should start PA00000 (o’s being reg number)

quite a few impersonators have been found and fined, real ones usually have an embroidered badge on there jerkins, romper suits. if in doubt ask for id.

There’s a scary number of wannabe oddballs about, and some are more convincing than the borderline afflicted individual documented below. A strange obsession, for sure.

[video]https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KeuJ_6skbF4[/video]

Embroidered badge meand nothing all I’ve not worn one for around 3 years now.

Its more of an issue with someone befriending a vulnerable teenager on facebook. Something doesnt smell right about him (a lot of his friends are 17 to 18 yr old girls in a different (particular) part of the UK to him), he is late 20s. He is claiming to be a paramedic, but he doesnt come up in the HCPC register online.

Hcpc will happily do nothing about him, police may be interested? Or,friend him with a fake profile, invite him round, chop his hand off and see if he can manage major traumatic haemorrhage inline with jrcalc 2016.

Doesn’t sound like it’s his hand that needs cutting off.

He would be on the register if he was a UK Paramedic.

He would be on the register if he was a UK Paramedic.

He may well be… Just not the HPC register…

He may well be… Just not the HPC register…

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Sounds like he might be on some kind of register soon enough from what the OP says!

Haha!