Continuing professional development (CPD) is a process to ensure as far as possible that someone remains up to date with current developments and good practice within their profession and as a result continues to be ‘fit to practise’ within their profession and speciality.
When registrants are placed on the register they accept that they have a responsibility to maintain a continuous, up-to-date and accurate record of their CPD activities.
The CPD activities should:
- demonstrate a mixture of learning activities relevant to current or future practise;
- demonstrate that their CPD has contributed to the quality of their practise and service delivery;
- demonstrate that their CPD benefits the service user.
A random percentage of registrants will be selected each year and will be asked to submit a record of CPD activity for the CPD Audit Panel to review.
If selected for audit, supporting evidence will be requested and this will include a description of how they have met the standards for CPD.
Please familiarize yourself with the RCT CPD Policy, which has recently been updated.
CPD standards
The CPD standards used are those laid out by HCPC which are:-
- maintain a continuous, up-to-date and accurate record of their CPD activities;
- demonstrate that their CPD activities are a mixture of learning activities relevant to current or future practise;
- seek to ensure that their CPD has contributed to the quality of their practise and service delivery;
- seek to ensure that their CPD benefits the service user; and
- upon request, present a written profile (which must be their own work and supported by evidence) explaining how they have met the standards for CPD.