Published standards
Policies and standards.
A credential is only worth what its rules are worth — and rules nobody can read are worth nothing. These are the standards a GHCA assessment is run under and a GHCA result is decided by, published in full, before you register rather than after something goes wrong.
Assessment and integrity
The rules an examination runs under, and how performance in it becomes a result.
GHCA-AD-01
Assessment Integrity Standard
The rules every proctored GHCA examination runs under, and the authority a proctor holds during one.
GHCA-AS-07
Results and Grading
How a result is decided, what each result status means, and the limits on re-sitting.
GHCA-AS-06
Malpractice and Maladministration
What counts as a breach, how it is investigated, and what can happen as a result.
Candidate rights
What a candidate is entitled to ask for, and how to ask for it.
GHCA-AS-05
Reasonable Adjustments
Fair access to assessment: what can be adjusted before a sitting, and what can be done after one.
Your credential and the Registry
What happens to a credential after it is awarded, and how anyone can check it.
GHCA-CERT-03
Suspension and Withdrawal
The grounds and process for pausing, removing or relinquishing a credential — and what the Registry then shows.
GHCA-REG-03
Verification Service
How anyone can confirm a credential is genuine, free and without the holder's involvement.
How GHCA governs itself
The constraints GHCA places on its own commercial interests to keep certification decisions clean.
GHCA-IMP-01
Impartiality
The conflict at the heart of any certification body, and the structural limits GHCA places on itself because of it.
The rest of GHCA’s published rules
Three more documents sit outside this library because they answer a different question, and each has its own page:
- Appeals and complaints — how to challenge a result, and how to raise a concern. Both routes, with their deadlines.
- Privacy Notice — How GHCA handles the personal information of candidates, training providers and enquirers — including what appears on the public Registry.
- Terms & Conditions of Registration — The terms on which GHCA registers candidates, assesses them, and issues and maintains a credential on the public Registry.
Status of these documents
GHCA’s policy set is a controlled document set, and each document here carries its GHCA document code. The set is in the process of formal Board adoption: these are the rules GHCA operates by today and the rules you will be held to, published in full, but a document only states that it is formally in force once it carries an effective date.
Where a standard describes a capability that is not yet running — remote proctoring is the live example — the page says so at the top rather than letting you assume it applies to you. If a page and your experience of GHCA disagree, that is a discrepancy GHCA wants to hear about and correct: write to info@ghcaofficial.org.
7 standards published here. GHCA does not publish live assessment content, individual candidate results beyond the Registry’s verification fields, or its internal operating procedures.