Guidance on completing your Registrant renewal form (2024-2025)
Our Registrant renewal form for the membership year 1 April 2024 – 31 March 2025 is now open. To remain on the BPC Register from 01 April 2024, you will need to renew your registration by 31 March 2024.
You will need to be logged in to renew your membership – login advice can be found here. Once logged in, click ‘My account’ and you’ll find the “Registrant Renewal Form 2024-2025” on the left-hand side.
Please follow the guidance below to complete your registration.
If you have any queries or issues, please contact us at hello@bpc.org.uk.
The renewal form needs to be completed in one sitting – you cannot save the form and return at a later time.
Before you start, please ensure you have/know:
- Which registration category you are renewing as. Please take note of any changes to categories outlined on the website
- Your date of qualification (the date you completed a course that led to being a BPC Registrant)
- Any other regulatory body registration numbers
- Your countersignatory name and registration number(s) (search here)
- Your debit or credit card details
NB: You aren’t required to declare your CPD hours at this stage, but please keep a note of your CPD for the previous calendar year, in case you are selected for audit.
In order to complete the Renewal Form, you will need to check the following information and agree to the following:
Page by page guidance of the Registrant Renewal Form
Page 1
First Name and Last Name
Your first name, last name and Registration number are not editable and will appear greyed out. If you wish to show a different name on the BPC Register, please contact us before proceeding.
Have you qualified within the last 2 years?
If you have qualified from your BPC-accredited training within the last two years, and have not previously been a BPC Registrant, you will be eligible for a discount on Full Registration. Click here to see the fees for each registration type.
Date of Qualification
Your Date of Qualification is the date you completed a course that led to being a BPC Registrant; your first accredited BPC course completion. If you only know the month and year or just the year, please enter as best you can e.g. 01/01/2008
Dual Registered
Please click ‘No’ if you are only registered to the BPC and no other regulatory bodies. Please click ‘Yes’ and list in the textbox that opens any other regulatory bodies you are also a member of, as well as your membership or registration number/ID with them.
Context of Work
Please choose the areas in which the majority of your work takes place. This is a multiple choice option, allowing you to select one or more options that apply to your work. If your work context does not meet any of the options, select ‘Other’ and provide some brief details in the textbox that appears.
BPC’s Guidance and Policies
You must confirm that you have read and agree to the BPC Code of Ethics, and will continue to keep updated with guidance and guidelines from the BPC, in order to move onto the next page.
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Registration Type and Fees
Please select the registration type that is most appropriate to your circumstances. From 2024-25, the Teaching and Supervisory categories have been combined into one.
You can find out more information about each category here.
Member Institution(s)
Your Member Institution(s), MI Membership Title and MI Membership Status should be automatically filled. These fields are not editable. If what appears is incorrect or you would like to add further memberships that you hold with other Member Institutions, please contact us.
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Home/Work address
Your home and/or work address is for BPC use only and will not be shared publicly. Your work address will only appear if it has been filled in previously. Any correspondence, including our New Associations magazine, will be sent to your home address.
NB your home and work email addresses are not editable and will appear greyed out. If you need to edit or update these, please email hello@bpc.org.uk
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Practice Address
Your practice address is the address that appears on your BPC profile on the PUBLIC Register.
This section is not editable. You can update this information in the ‘My Account’ section after completing this form.
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Please declare activity from 1st January 2023 - 31st December 2023
CPD Activity
You are no longer required to declare your CPD hours at renewal but we recommend you keep a note of the clinical and general CPD activity you complete between 01 January and 31 December each year in case you are selected for audit. If you’d like a sample template for recording your CPD, you can download one here.
You can find the CPD requirements for each registration category listed here. Please note that from 2022, Registrants in the NHS only category are required to complete the same number of CPD hours as Full Registrants.
You will need to declare that you have undertaken the required CPD hours and will continue to do so.
Explain your situation
If you have been unable to complete the required CPD hours for the previous year, or anticipate circumstances where you may be unable to meet them for the coming year, you should also tick ‘I need to explain my situation‘. A textbox will appear below – please detail why you were unable to meet your CPD requirements in the box. This information will be sent to the Professional Standards Committee for approval.
Newly registered
If you registered with the BPC for the first time during 2023, your CPD requirement will be calculated on a pro-rata basis, from when you joined. To calculate your pro-rata hours, you will need to divide both the required clinical and required general hours by 12, then multiply them by the number of months you were registered in that calendar year.
Example: for full Registrants, the CPD requirement from 1 Jan – 31 Dec is 15 hours clinical CPD and 15 hours general CPD. If you joined the BPC on 1 July as a Full Registrant, the pro-rata requirement would be 7.5 hours clinical CPD and 7.5 hours general CPD. Each month of membership requires pro-rated 1.25 hours of CPD if you are a Full Registrant.
For more information on CPD requirements for other categories, please click here.
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Declaration
In order to complete your renewal, you must make the declaration that you are fit to practise. If you have any concerns or questions about this, you will need to contact us. To agree, click on the ‘I confirm that I have read and understood the declaration above‘ button at the bottom of the page.
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Countersignature
You will need a countersignatory for your registration. Your countersignatory must have heard your work and can agree they do not know any reason why you cannot continue to be registered. They do not have to be your regular supervisor but must have heard enough about your work from you to be able to make that declaration. Your countersignatory cannot be your partner, close friend or relative.
Normally, we expect your countersignatory to be psychoanalytically qualified for at least five years and be a current BPC Registrant from the psychoanalytic or Jungian analytic part of the register. In exceptional circumstances, we will accept countersignatories registered with other PSA-accredited registers such as UKCP, ACP and BACP. BACP registrants must be BACP accredited to act as a countersignatory. In other exceptional circumstances, we might accept a BPC Registrant not from the psychoanalytic/Jungian analytic part of the register but you will need to contact us to get this approved.
If your countersignatory does not meet any of the above criteria, you will need to send us an email after you have submitted your renewal form to explain why. If your countersignatory does not meet the above criteria, and has not changed, but was approved last year by the Chair of the Professional Standards Committee, you do not need to contact us again.
Our requirements for countersignatories are currently under review as we appreciate they might not be achievable in all circumstances. This review is likely to take some time, and we will notify Registrants of any changes to our requirements as soon as we can.
If you are renewing in the Deferred category, we recommend still having a countersignatory.
My Countersignatory is
If we hold your countersignatory, these details will already be filled in. Please check this is still correct, and update if necessary.
My countersignatory is registered with
The regulatory body of your countersignatory should automatically appear ticked if we already have this information. However, you can add/edit this information – it is possible to select more than one.
My Countersignatory’s registration number is
If you have already provided this, your countersignatory’s registration number should appear in the field. If not, please enter their registration number here.
If you are looking for your the registration number of a BPC Registrant, head to our Find a Therapist page. Type their name in the search box and click on their profile. Registration numbers are listed above the name of the Registrant.
Click to confirm you have spoken with your countersignatory and they are happy for their details to be included in this form and contacted by the BPC, if required.
Countersignatories
If you have been asked to countersign for a Registrant, you are not required to make any declarations. However, we may contact you to confirm your countersignature in the future.
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Payment
To make payment, please enter your bank details as follows:
In the Blue section, enter your long bank card number.
In the Red section, enter your expiration date.
In the Green section, enter your card’s CVC number (three numbers on the back).
You will also need to include your billing post code (this appears once the card details are filled in – see below).
As you fill in these card details, a new box will appear asking for your billing postcode:
In the Purple section, enter your card’s billing post code.
You must enter your billing post code at the end of the the payment bar; if you do not, the payment will not go through.
Completion
If your card details were entered correctly, you should see the below message.
You should receive an email confirmation and receipt of payment to confirm the renewal process is completed. Please check your spam/junk email folder.