Signpost for Continuing Professional Development
This document will ensure CPD aligns with current national standards, professional regulation requirements and academic best practice.
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The aim of continuous professional development (CPD) is to provide employees and employers with the ability to deliver high quality, safe and effective person-centred care. There are strong links between high-quality CPD and improved patient safety.
The release of the NHS Long Term Plan has highlighted the importance of clearly articulating how targeted CPD can deliver an advanced practitioner multi-professional workforce that meets the mantra ‘right person, right place, right time’.
This document will ensure CPD aligns with current national standards, professional regulation requirements and academic best practice. It will also signpost to new and existing resources to support CPD and provide practitioners with an e-portfolio.
There is a commitment to increase investment in CPD over the next five years, how this is delivered against a background of current national recruitment and retention challenges is of utmost importance. Traditional methods of delivering CPD need to be boosted by using advances in technology.