Healthcare practitioners have a responsibility to continually update their professional knowledge and skills for the end benefit of the patient or client. To this end the HPCSA has implemented a Continuing Professional Development programme.
Practitioners are required to accumulate Continuing Education Units (CEUs) per twelve-month period; including the ethics, human rights and medical law.
Each CEU will be valid for 24 months from the date on which the activity took place (or ended, in the event of post-graduate studies) after which it would lapse. This means that practitioners should aim to accumulate a balance of 60 CEUs by the end of their second year of practise, and thereafter top-up the balance through additional CPD as each 24 –month validity period expires.
Mandatory random audits are conducted to ensure compliancy. Once a practitioner’s name has been selected, they are required to submit a CPD portfolio to Council within 21 days. Non-compliant practitioners will be given six months in order to comply. After the period of 6 months a practitioner will again be audited and if there is still non-compliance, the Professional Board will consider appropriate action. Practitioners are only required to submit their CPD portfolios when their names are drawn from a random sample audit and when requested to submit their completed form CPD 1 IAR with accompanying proof of CPD activities undertaken.
Guidelines
| CPD Guidelines | View document |
Frequently Asked Questions
| CPD FAQ’s | View document |
Accreditors
| Application for recognition as an Accreditor – Form 4 | View document |
| Approved Accreditation Fees | View document |
| Criteria guidelines for accreditors | View document |
CPD FORMS
| For Practitioners | |
|---|---|
| CPD Manual | View document |
| Health Practitioner’s Individual CPD Activity Record | Form CPD 1 |
| Feedback Form – Evaluation of HPCSA CPD Accredited Activity | Form CPD 7 |
| Application for Recognition as an Accreditor of CPD Activities | Form CPD 4 |
| For Accreditors/Accredited CPService Providers | |
|---|---|
| Application for Approval of CPD Activities | Form CPD 2A |
| Application by Institutions or Associations for Accredited Service Provider Status | Form CPD 2 |
| Certificate of CPD Attendance | Form CPD 3 |
| Annual Report | Form |
| Professional Boards | |
|---|---|
| Process Flow: New Application and Re-application for Accreditor Status | Form CPD 8 |
| Checklist for Accreditors & Accredited Service Providers | Form CPD 11 |
Service Providers
| Activity Programme and Presenter CV’s – Form CPD 2-A | View document |
| Application as an accredited Service Provider – Form CPD 2 | View document |
| Attendance Certificate – Form CPD 3 | View document |
| Criteria and Guidelines for Service Providers | View document |
Approved Accreditors
| Professional Boards | |
| Dental Assisting, Dental Therapy & Oral Hygiene | View document |
| Dietetics and Nutrition | View document |
| Emergency Care | View document |
| Environmental Health | View document |
| Medical, Dental and Medical Science | View document |
| Medical Technology | View document |
| Occupational Therapy & Medical Orthotics, Prosthetics and Arts Therapy | View document |
| Optometry & Dispensing Opticians | View document |
| Physiotherapy, Podiatry and Biokinetics | View document |
| Psychology | View document |
| Radiography & Clinical Technology | View document |
| Speech, Language and Hearing | View document |