4. Maintaining your CPD as a practitioner
UKPHR’s CPD requirements for practitioner registrants were suspended from April 2020 until April 2022. However, we encouraged registrants to continue to record their CPD activities where possible. The CPD requirement has now been reinstated
UKPHR has set mandatory CPD requirements for Practitioner registrants as follows.
Practitioners must meet UKPHR’s standard which is the standard published by the Faculty of Public Health (or an alternative professional equivalent) namely:
- participants must submit a minimum of three, and a maximum of six reflective notes each financial year,
- each reflective note must be linked to one or more PDP objective(s),
- there is no longer any requirement to record CPD points
How does UKPHR check practitioner CPD compliance?
5-yearly re-registration
You will be required to provide evidence of CPD at the time of your 5-yearly re-registration. This will either be in the form of your FPH certificates for the past 5 years or your CPD reflective notes per financial year over the past 5 years.
UKPHR does not specify a template for recording your own CPD and supporting evidence such as certificates of attendance are not required to be submitted unless UKPHR requests this information. However, UKPHR has produced a reflective note template should you wish to use this to record your reflective notes.
If you have been exempt from submitting a CPD return by the Faculty for any of the years, you must provide evidence of this. If you do not use the Faculty’s CPD diary but require an exemption from your CPD responsibilities, please contact us at register@ukphr.org to request an exemption for your CPD.
If you are looking for CPD courses and training, you may find HEE’s Practitioner’s Education and Training directory helpful, as it provides links to education and training opportunities.
Comments are closed.