Introduction..................................................................................................... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
About this document...................................................................................................... 3
CPD and HPC registration: A summary of CPD and the audit process......................... 3
CPD and your registration......................................................................................... . . . . . 4
About us................................................................................................................. 4
Registered professions.................................................................................................... 4

All of the professions have at least one professional title which is protected by
law, including those shown above. This means, for example, that anyone using
the titles \u2018physiotherapist\u2019 or \u2018dietitian\u2019 must be registered with us...................... 4
It is a criminal offence for someone to claim that they are registered with us

when they are not, or to use a protected title that they are not entitled to use. We
will prosecute people who commit these crimes.................................................... 4
A new responsibility...................................................................................................... . 4
Background.................................................................................................................... 5
Our standards for CPD................................................................................................... 5
Your responsibility.............................................................................................. . . . . . . . . . . . 5
The role of your employer......................................................................................... . . . . . 5
CPD and fitness to practise............................................................................................ 6
CPD and competence............................................................................................. 6
If a CPD profile is fraudulent................................................................. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
CPD, your practice, and your ongoing competence............................................... 6
Important dates.................................................................................................... . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Audit dates........................................................................................................ . . . . . . 7
Undertaking CPD........................................................................................................... 8
What is CPD?................................................................................................................. 8
Standards of CPD........................................................................................................... 8
The standards in detail.................................................................................................... 8

Standard 1 \u2013 A registrant must maintain a continuous, up-to-date and accurate
record of their CPD activities................................................................................. 8
Standard 2 \u2013 A registrant must demonstrate that their CPD activities are a
mixture of learning activities relevant to current or future practice....................... 9
Standard 4 \u2013 A registrant must seek to ensure that their CPD benefits the service
user....................................................................................................................... 10
Standard 5 \u2013 A registrant must present a written profile containing evidence of

their CPD upon request........................................................................................ 11
CPD activities.......................................................................................................... . . . . . 11
Based on learning outcomes.................................................................................... . . . . . 12
Some examples of CPD activity................................................................................... 12
Registrant working in a clinical role.................................................................... 12
Registrant working in education........................................................................ . . . 12
Registrant working in management...................................................................... 12
Registrant involved in research............................................................................ 12
A flexible process......................................................................................................... 13
CPD schemes............................................................................................................... . 13

Your scope of practice.................................................................................................. 14
The NHS Knowledge and Skills Framework............................................................... 14
CPD and clinical governance....................................................................................... 15
Returners to practice..................................................................................................... 15
The audit process.......................................................................................................... 16
In brief.......................................................................................................................... 16
Two years\u2019 registration............................................................................................... . . 16
Sampling health professionals...................................................................................... 16
Auditing................................................................................................................... . . . . . 17
When we have received your profile............................................................ . . . . . . . 17

recommend that your registration should end...................................................... 17
CPD assessors.............................................................................................................. 18
Assessment criteria....................................................................................................... 19
Assessing the profile.................................................................................................... 21
Assessment outcomes.................................................................................. . . . . . . . . . 21
The appeal process....................................................................................................... 21
Coming back onto the register..................................................................................... 22
Deferral......................................................................................................................... 22
Keeping us up to date................................................................................................... 23
Communicating with employers.................................................................................. 23
Putting your CPD profile together...................................................... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
The purpose of each part of the profile........................................................................ 24
Writing the summary of your practice history............................................................. 24
Writing your statement......................................................................................... . . . . . . . . 24
Using your personal development plan................................................................ 25
Your supporting evidence............................................................................................ 27
Examples of evidence of CPD.............................................................................. 27
Copies of documents..................................................................... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Amount of evidence needed................................................................................. 28
Confidentiality............................................................................................ . . . . . . . . . 28
Example profiles.............................................................................. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Disabled health professionals............................................................................... . . . . . . . . 29
Your writing style......................................................................................................... 29
Our standards for communicating in English....................................................... 29
Glossary........................................................................................................................ 31
Appendix 1: examples of CPD activities..................................................................... 33
Appendix 2: examples of evidence........................................................ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

We, the Health Professions Council (HPC), have written this document for the health
professionals registered with us who are chosen to have a continuing professional
development (CPD) audit.

We have also written a short guide called \u2018Your guide to our standards for continuing professional development\u2019. This contains a quick summary of the main points in this document, and may be useful if you think that this document contains too much detail for you at this stage.

You must undertake CPD to stay registered with us. We have set standards which
your CPD must meet. Every time you renew your registration, you will need to
confirm that you have met these standards. From 2008, whenever a profession renews
its registration, we will randomly audit (check) the CPD of a proportion of health
professionals from that profession. The health professionals randomly chosen have to
send in evidence to show how their CPD meets the standards.