Update on Specialist Revalidation, Professional Appraisals and CPD

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Please see below some important updates about maintaining your UKPHR registration.

Meeting the annual professional appraisal requirement for UKPHR specialist revalidation

As you’re aware, we have re-introduced our regulatory requirements including revalidation and professional appraisals from April 2021. We know that our registrants are still facing a significant amount of pressure, but the annual professional appraisal requirement won’t be suspended for this financial year. The main purpose of the professional appraisal is to serve as a wellbeing check for our specialist registrants, which we think is particularly important moving forward. The appraisal provides you an opportunity to discuss your work and reflect during this challenging time.

Until March 2022, specialists can follow an appraisal approach which focusses on well-being and a reduced requirement for supporting information e.g. in England the ‘flexible appraisal’ or equivalent in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.

 

SARD Professional Appraisal arrangements in England

UKPHR are aware of the major organisational change affecting specialists in England, with the formation of the UKHSA from 1 October 2021, and the transfer of staff and professional appraisal responsibilities to a variety of organisations. As such we provide the following update on the SARD system. PHE recently sent a letter from Yvonne Doyle, PHE’s Responsible Officer, outlining the arrangements for professional appraisal support for eligible UKPHR specialists from 1st October 2021 to March 2022. Arrangements beyond this date are still being discussed and once these have been confirmed, we will keep you updated. Those who are registered on the SARD system will have received an email outlining the transition arrangements after 1st October 2021.

Those who do not have access to the SARD system in England to meet the professional appraisal requirement should make their own arrangements.

 

CPD requirements – Specialists and Practitioners

At the beginning of the pandemic in March 2020, the Faculty of Public Health suspended the requirement for its members to submit CPD returns for audit. This was originally for a 2-year period of April 2019 to March 2021 but has now been extended to the end of March 2022 due to the ongoing COVID-19 response.

Some of our registrants had been asked to provide CPD evidence for the 2019/2020 financial year for the purposes of 5-yearly revalidation/registration. We heard from some of you that the pandemic caused disruption to CPD during this period, so we have reconsidered the requirement. We will still require specialists and practitioners to demonstrate they have engaged in appropriate CPD during 2019/2020 period, but we won’t ask for a specific number of hours. Registrants will be required to complete the self-declaration statement which states the following:

“I certify that in 2019-20, I completed an appropriate amount of CPD during the pre-pandemic period.”

In line with the Faculty of Public Health, the UKPHR’s CPD requirements for both specialist and practitioner registrants have been suspended from April 2020 until April 2022. Registrants who are currently completing their 5-yearly revalidation or re-registration with us will not be required to submit evidence of CPD for 2020/2021 and 2021/2022. We nonetheless encourage you to record your CPD activities where you can. For specialists, the annual professional appraisal provides an opportunity to discuss CPD, which remains a requirement of revalidation. Please see the table below as a typical example of what we require from a specialist and practitioner registrant for their CPD for their revalidation/re-registration:

 

To satisfy CPD requirement:

CPD years Specialists – evidence required Practitioners – evidence required
1st April 2016 – 31st March 2017 ·         FPH CPD certificate or nothing if advised to collate CPD for the following financial year OR

·         Own log of CPD calculated pro rata if not using the FPH CPD diary including reflective notes

 ·         FPH CPD certificate or nothing if advised to collate CPD for the following financial year OR

·         Own log of CPD calculated pro rata if not using the FPH CPD diary including reflective notes
1st April 2017 – 31st March 2018 ·         50 credits – FPH CPD certificate OR

·         Own log of CPD for 50 credits including reflective notes

 ·         15 credits – FPH certificate OR

·         Own log of CPD for 15 credits including reflective notes
1st April 2018 – 31st March 2019 ·         50 credits – FPH certificate OR

·         Own log of CPD for 50 credits including reflective notes

 ·         15 credits – FPH certificate OR

·         Own log of CPD for 15 credits including reflective notes
1st April 2019 – 31st March 2020 ·         Completed self-declaration statement at the time of revalidation AND

·         FPH certificate of good professional standing if registered with FPH CPD scheme (if applicable)

 ·         Completed self-declaration statement at the time of re-registration AND

·         FPH certificate of good professional standing if registered with FPH CPD scheme (if applicable)
1st April 2020 – 31st March 2021 ·         No CPD evidence required to be submitted as part of application, but CPD is encouraged and reflected upon in future appraisals

·         FPH certificate of good professional standing if registered with FPH CPD scheme (if applicable)

 ·          No CPD evidence required to be submitted as part of application, but CPD is encouraged and reflected upon in future appraisals

·         FPH certificate of good professional standing if registered with FPH CPD scheme (if applicable)
1st April 2021 – 31st March 2022 ·         No CPD evidence required to be submitted as part of application, but CPD is encouraged and evidence of CPD and reflective practice through appraisal discussion 2021/22 (if applicable)

·         FPH certificate of good professional standing if registered with FPH CPD scheme (if applicable)

 ·         Evidence of CPD and reflective practice through annual appraisal discussion (if applicable)

·         FPH certificate of good professional standing if registered with FPH CPD scheme (if applicable)

 

Specialists and practitioners who are on maternity, adoption or shared parental leave can request to be exempt from collating CPD during their period of leave. Please contact us at register@ukphr.org if this is the case.

 

Updating employment details on the UKPHR registrant portal

If you have recently changed employment or have been transferred from PHE since 1st October 2021 to a different organisation, please log in to your registrant portal on UKPHR’s website & update your employment information and email address so you don’t miss out on any important communications from us.

As well as this being the registrant’s responsibility, failure to update your contact details will risk your UKPHR registration becoming lapsed. While it is possible to apply for restoration to the Register, this does incur an additional fee.

Please contact the office at register@ukphr.org if you do not have your portal login details and we can reset these for you.