CPD and Revalidation

CPD - consists of 4 cycles: The standards for CPD is to ensure that pharmacy professionals maintain their knowledge and skills and to remain upto date with practise. Patients, the public and government expect that every pharmacy professional maintains their professional capability throughout their career. Keeping a record of your CPD enables you to confirm that you are meeting these expectations. It also helps you to treain and build confidence as a professional and it will provide evidence that you meet the GPhC requirements.
1. CPD framework: At least 3/9 of the CPD entry must start at refelction. At least 50% of the assessable criteria for good recording practice. If the outcome have not meet the GPhC standards, pharmacist may be asked to carry out extra activities.
2. CPD Rules: Set out in a Statutory Instrument (GPhC (CPD and Consequential Amendements) Rules Order of Council: 2011 No.1367). and outline the circumstances in which registrants can be regarded as having failed to comply with CPD requirements and the steps that we may take if a registrant fails to comply with our CPD requirements.
3. Part 5 of Pharmacy Order empowers the GPhC to regulate training both before and after registeration through CPD and, through revalidation. These Rules are made under 43 of the Pharmacy Order, which means failure to comply can mean appearance before FTP committee.
4. The 5 principles of CPD standard are: 1) Keep a record of your CPD that is legible, either electronically online, on another computer, or as hard copy on paper and in a format published or approved by GPhC and carrying the CPD approved logo. 2) Make a minimum of 9 CPD entries per year which reflect the context and scope of your practice as a pharmacist or technician. 3) Keep a record of your CPD that complies with the good practice criteria for CPD recording. 4) Record how your CPD has contributed to the quality or development of your practice using CPD framework. 5) Submit your CPD record to us on request.
1. CPD
2. WHAT IS REVALIDATION?
1. The GPhC has defined Revalidation as - "The Process by which assurance of Continuing FTP of registrants is provided and in a way which is aimed primarily at supporting and enhancing professional practice. Therefore GPhC will implement pharmacist revalidation through assuring pharmacist. Plan for implementation are 2015.
  1. May explore the importance of interdependencies with registered pharmacy standards and inspection visits, to avoid replicating activies for system and registrant level regulation.
  2. Using different sources of information and evidence - views of the profession are essential to inform requirement on suitable evidence for revalidation, accommodating flexibilty and choice for different sectors and using an outcome-based approach. Such models may help understand what patients and the public expect, including confidence in a registrant's professional role and scope of practice.
  3. Revalidation could help to support the gathering information and evidence to enable registrants to demonstrate what they have learnt form their own practice and the practice of others, to impact on future practice.
  4. Forms of assessment: Self-evaluation, peer review, patient feedback, appraisal, complaint logs and testimonials, audits and customer satisfaction surveys and most importantly CPD records.
3. WHY THE NEED FOR REVALIDATION?
1. Some of the main important contributing factors are: 1) To maintain public confidence in pharmacy profession. Opinion polling repeatedly shown that the public believe health professionals are already subject to regular reviews or assessments of FTP. 2) Bristol Inquiry Report showed that competence did not always grow with experience and could diminsh over time and there is no system to spot the wearing of competence to support professionals or protect patients. 3) Also the report showed that waiting for things to go wrong did not proect patients adequately, and that there was evidence of suboptimal performance within the medical profession. 4) Seeking a more flexible, tailored approach to revalidation is not good enough. The government still expects health professional regulators (GPhC for pharmacy) to provide evidence.
2. The practice of pharmacy is currently undergoing a revolution in which the clinical expertise of the profession is being given greater freedom to harness itself to the needs of patients. Increasingly, pharmacists are no longer constrained by outmoded limits on their ability to prescribe independently to patients and the prescribing of a far wider range of effective medicines will become more commonplace in future. Pharmacy technicians, too, are working more closely with patients and hence are expected to be the subject of statutory registration when the new legislation is implemented. As a profession, pharmacists are entering a new era, in which they will have much greater scope to apply their high levels of expertise in direct patient care. With these changes comes the need to ensure that their regulatory arrangements are in keeping with their increasing levels of professional responsibility and the accompanying benefits and risks to patients that that entails. These changes also requ
  1. require strong and effective clinical leadership and support.
3. Examples: Mid-Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust, The Howard-Shipman case, Beverly Gail Allitt (nurse who killed 6 children)
4. How will pharmacists demonstrate their continuing fitness to practise in the future?
1. framework for continuing fitness to practise (revalidation) will have 3 main components: 1. Peer review: A review of the registrant’s work will be conducted by a professional peer and will be based on a registrant’s scope of practice. The GPhC is proposing that it will accredit partner organisations to run the peer review process. Wherever possible, peer review will build on existing processes, such as appraisals. 2. CPD review: The GPhC will evaluate the current CPD scheme and introduce a modified version of it in parallel with the new framework. The intention is that the new approach to CPD will focus on the relevance of CPD entries to a registrant’s scope of practice. 3. External performance indicators: The process will involve a review of external performance measures, which will vary according to the scope of a registrant’s practice. Indicators will be developed in consultation with the profession.

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