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Record
Your CPD Record will need to include
your PDP, details of the CPD activities
undertaken, independently verifiable evidence
(usually in the form of a certificate), your
reflective notes and any measurements of
outcomes that you have made.

Verifiable CPD and
quality controls
In the new scheme, the GDC will only
accept verifiable CPD. The criteria for
verifiable CPD has changed, in order to
put an onus on CPD providers to assure
quality. There are a number of qualityassurance frameworks in existence and
the 'gold standard' has been created by the
Committee of Postgraduate Dental Deans
and Directors (COPDEND).
Your CPD provider is expected to provide
you with full transparency with regard to the
framework used and to provide supporting
documentation that is open to scrutiny by
the GDC whenever required, for example,
if your CPD is audited by the regulator as
part of its routine inspections.

GDC high-level
learning outcomes
As well as moving towards all CPD being
verified, the enhanced scheme requires that
your CPD relates to at east one of the GDC's
high level learning outcomes.
These outcomes are synthesised from
the GDC's Standard for the Dental Team
and there are 4 of them.
1. Effective communication with patients,
the dental team, and others across

CPD hours
The minimum number of hours
required per cycle depends on your
professional title.
Remember t hat you must a lso
ensure that you declare at least 10 hours
during any 2-year period, regardless of
how many hours you may have done
during the cycle.

dentistry, including when obtaining
consent, dealing with complaints, and
raising concerns when patients are at risk
2. Effective management of self, and effective
management of others or effective work
with others in the dental team, in the
interests of patients at all times; providing
constructive leadership where appropriate
3. Maintenance and development of
knowledge and skill within your field
of practice
4. Maintenance of skills, behaviours
and attitudes which maintain patient
conf idence in you and the dental
profession and put patients' interests first

25 unverified hours in year 1 and 0 verified
plus 15 unverified hours in year 2.
For the rest of this cycle, it's necessary to
complete 10 hours of unverified CPD plus a
further 65 hours of verified CPD and at least
10 verified hours MUST be logged in Year 3.
Now consider a dentist who will be
starting the 4th year of his or her cycle in
January 2018 and has logged 50 verified
hours in year 1, and no unverified hours, 50
verified hours in year 2 and no unverified
hours, and 0 hours in year 3.
For the rest of this cycle, it's necessary to
complete 10 hours of verified CPD in year 4
plus 105 hours of unverified CPD.

Managing the transition

Embrace the change

If the start of your new CPD cycle
coincides with the start of the new scheme,
then your transition is straight-forward as
your requirements will be based entirely
upon the table above.
However, if you are part-way through a
cycle in 2018 then your cycle will become
a hybrid of the two schemes and your
requirements will be pro-rated. In other
words, you'll need to fulfil all of the verifiable
and non-verifiable requirements for each year
that you were in the old scheme as well as
the verifiable requirements for each year that
you are in the new scheme.
Dentist's annual requirements in the old
scheme are 15 verified and 35 unverified hours
DCP's annual requirements in the old
scheme are 10 verified and 25 unverified hours

These are big changes which are going
to be implemented quickly. It may seem
overbearing at first but you'll reap significant
benefits if you approach it with a positive
attitude.
Carefully planned and executed CPD will
improve your working life, enhance patient
care and open new career pathways for you.
On a person level, when you pay attention
to your CPD, job satisfaction becomes a choice
and career development becomes a reality
Your continuing development covers more
than just clinical skills. Use it to develop
self-awareness, self-confidence and all aspects
of your own personal development and
these improvements will be reflected in all
that you do.
This article meets the parameters for
verif ied CPD and you can claim your
certificate by registering and logging in at
https://dental.cpdpro.org.uk. n

Examples
Consider a hygienist who starts the
third year of his or her cycle in August
2018 and has so far logged 10 verified plus

Professional title

Minimum hours of CPD per cycle

Dentists

100

Dental Therapists

75

Dental Hygienists

75

Orthodontic Therapists

75

Clinical Dental Technicians

75

Dental Nurses

50

Dental Technicians

50

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