Continuing professional development requirements for UK health professionals: a scoping review.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

This paper sets out to establish the numbers and titles of regulated healthcare professionals in the UK and uses a review of how continuing professional development (CPD) for health professionals is described internationally to characterise the postqualification training required of UK professions by their regulators. It compares these standards across the professions and considers them against the best practice evidence and current definitions of CPD.

Design

A scoping review.

Search strategy

We conducted a search of UK health and social care regulators' websites to establish a list of regulated professional titles, obtain numbers of registrants and identify documents detailing CPD policy. We searched Applied Social Sciences Index and Abstracs (ASSIA), Cumu

SUBMITTER: Karas M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7066625 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature