Quality Assurance: CPD, Validation, revalidation

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Quality AssuranceCPD, Validation, revalidation

• Moragh Loose, General Dental Council

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Keeping your knowledge and skills up to date

• Continuing Professional Development
• 150 or 250 hours over 5 years
• core recommended subjects
• 50 0r 75 hours must be verifiable
• concise educational aims and objectives
• clear anticipated outcomes
• quality controls e.g. feedback
• documentary proof e.g. certificate

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Core subjects

• Medical emergencies (10 hours per CPD cycle)
• Disinfection and decontamination (5 hours per CPD
  cycle)
• Radiography and radiation protection (5 hours per
  CPD cycle)
• Exception for dental technicians

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Why do we need revalidation?

• Prevention better than cure
• General direction of healthcare regulation
• CPD is a starting-point

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Validation and re-validation

• Weve asked ourselves two questions
• - are existing requirements sufficient to ensure
  that dental professionals are up to standard on
  first registration?
• - what kind of system should we put in place to
  make sure that they remain up to standard
  throughout their careers?

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Definitions

• Validation initial suitability for full
  registration
• Revalidation ongoing suitability for full
  registration

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Four areas
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A 3-step model
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Where are we up to?

• Developing the standards for validation and
  revalidation
• Working on developing the detail of the system
  for Step 1 and Step 2, for piloting across 2009

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Implications for PCTs

• Clinical governance information and systems can
  contribute (e.g. summative appraisal, practice
  inspections) dont want to reinvent wheel
• Please let us know what you are doing

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What are your concerns and questions?

• Give us your feedback
• Please reply to our formal consultations
• mloose_at_gdc-uk.org
• 02078873819