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Completing a CPD profile for audit

If selected for CPD audit, you'll be asked to submit a profile as proof of your activities and how they meet the standards for CPD

Standards of proficiency

Supporting your employees in understanding and meeting the revised standards of proficiency

How should I record my CPD?

This is your personal record, and you can keep it in whatever way is most convenient for you

Breach of confidentiality

Case study: An occupational therapist's employer raised concerns with us after the registrant left a notepad containing confidential information, pertaining to a number of service users, at the home address of a service user.

Dishonesty – fraud

Case study: An employer raised concerns about an operating department practitioner’s (ODP) conviction of fraud. For this conviction, she was sentenced to 18-months imprisonment and suspended for 24 months.

Driving under the influence of alcohol

Case study: A podiatrist self-referred following a conviction for driving under the influence of alcohol.

Failure to maintain adequate records

Case study: An occupational therapist’s employer raised concerns relating to their clinical practice and conduct, following a number of incidents relating to nine different cases.

Standards for prescribing

Our expectations of education providers delivering training in prescribing and of professionals on our Register who prescribe

Registration: what you need to know as an employer

Info on joining the Register, renewals, international applicants, period of adaptation and returning to practice

Supporting your employees' health and wellbeing

Information and insights on how you can support employees through and after these difficult times

Failure to provide adequate care

Case study: A paramedic self-referred with an allegation that he carried out inadequate assessments.

My story - Gillian Reeley

Gillian Reeley is a HCPC registered occupational therapist working for Aberdeen Royal Infirmary, NHS Grampian.

Interim Orders

How we deal with serious cases during an investigation

Maintaining approval

What we need from providers to maintain their programme's approval through our performance review process.