Grant DuncanGrant Duncan

CPD - DefinitionsLearning activities, which update existing skills.

A combination of approaches, ideas and techniques that will help you manage your own learning and growth.

Any activity engaged in by an individual through which they continue to maintain and enhance existing competence and develop new knowledge and skills.

A means of supporting people in the workplace to understand more about the environment in which they work, the job they do and how to do it better. It is an ongoing process throughout our working lives.

...the means by which members of professionalassociations maintain, improve and broaden

theirknowledge and skills and develop the personal

qualitiesrequired in their professional lives.

What should be included?CPD should not be exclusively about formal

events, seminars, courses or qualifications (although these can be valuable elements), and may involve development in both technical and non-technical areas. It can include a wide variety of activities such as open learning, private study, work experience and more.

QualificationsCity & Guilds Diploma in Diabetic

Retinopathy ScreeningWarwick MSc in Health Sciences (Retinal

Screening – Diabetes)Foundation Degree in Ophthalmic ScienceRoehampton University MSc Life Sciences

(Diabetes)

Other Routes to CPDMultidisciplinary Team Meetings (MDT)Clinical review meetingsOne-to-one sessions with senior staffNHS Compulsory Basic TrainingTraining courses and workshopsProfessional body council meetings and sub-

committee membershipNational meetings (MSC, VRC etc.)

Who is ResponsibleIt is important that employers allocate time and

resources to allow screeners to take part in CPD.

Contractual obligations and job plans may need to be defined more precisely to identify the time that is to be committed to CPD.

As a professional, you have a responsibility to keep your skills and knowledge up to date. CPD helps you turn that accountability into a positive opportunity to identify and achieve your own career objectives

The consensus view is that a “points” system provides the most effective way of monitoring standards and isthe easiest to administer.

CPD will not be based on any formal examinations.

What Can BARS Do?Help and adviceProvision of workshopsBARS ForumAnnual Conference

Online CPD diary

Existing ModelsRoyal Colleges