HPCSA CPD

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• HPCSA CPD

Presentation by Mrs Barbara van Stade Senior
Manager CPD, Registrations and Records 26
October 2006
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HPCSA Founded for public protection and
professional guidance

• Statutory body established in terms of the Health
  Professions Act (Act No.56 of 1974)
• HPCSA has 12 Professional Boards operating under
  its auspices
• The Professional Boards control the professions
  within their ambit under the overarching
  coordination and guidance of the HPCSA
• CPD mandatory in terms of Section 26 of the Act
  for all health care professionals registered with
  HPCSA

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Philosophy of Continuing Professional Development
(CPD)

• CPD was reconfigured
• CPD directed at self-learning with clear
  identification of individualised needs
• Performance Assessment System to identify
  weaknesses formulate interventions to remedy or
  strengthen possible weak areas of practice
  (Practice portfolios)
• Ethical practice requires update of knowledge,
  skills and attitude for competent practice
• Designed to improve overall patient care skills
• Developing health care professionals by exposing
  them to approved activities
• Life long learning
• Programme rests on basis of trust.

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Impact of new CPD Programme

• Emphasis on accreditation of Service Providers
  instead of individual CPD activities
• Hierarchy of learning activities
• Three levels of activities non measuarable
  (Congresses), measurable (Journal articles with
  evaluation) and formally structured learning
  programmes (degree courses)
• Individual activities (Level 1) as well as once
  off activities and non accredited activities
  attended abroad may be approved by accreditors
• No complicated electronic system needed

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Logistics

• One CPD Committee comprising of one
  representative per Board to attend to policy
  matters for uniformity in implementation of CPD
• Accumulation of 30 Continuing Educational Units
  (CEUs) per annum
• CEUs valid for 24 months - then lapse
• 30 CEUs per year thus 60 over 2 years to be
  maintained
• No overall submission of certificates and CEUs to
  HPCSA on annual basis
• Targets are realistically achievable
• CEUs may be accrued from only one level or across
  all levels

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Logistics

• Activities that do not qualify for CEUs, i.e.
  membership of professional associations or
  Board/Council staff or admin meetings time
  spent in planning or organising an activity
  supervision that is part of job description etc.
• Practitioners to keep an Individual CPD activity
  record of all CPD activities attended (Form CPD
  1)

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Logistics

• Deferment
• Deferment usually not granted to practitioners
  practising profession overseas
• Approved if not practising their profession in SA
  or abroad
• Approved if retired and not practising
• Practitioners who have been erased for more than
  a year need to submit proof of CEUs accrued
  before restoration will be effected
• Non-clinical practice register for permanent
  exemptions with no CPD requirements for those on
  that register, e.g. pensioners, ill health.

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Logistics

• Community service and internship / registrars
  exempted from CPD although may attend to CPD -
  CEUs accrued to their credit for 24 months
• Essential to update contact details
• Voluntary removal from register (Sec 19(1)(c)
  application before 31 March of year voluntary
  removal is requested for.
• Restoration after erasure in terms of Sections
  19(1)(c) and (d), non payment of annual fee
• Report to Professional Board concerned

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Accreditors and Service Providers

• All Professional Boards to approve and appoint
  external accreditors
• Boards to approve and accredit Service providers
  or may delegate authority to approved Accreditors
  
• Service Providers approved and accredited for one
  year
• Service Providers to have Board specific
  identification numbers
• Activities not accredited, but service providers

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Accreditors and Service Providers

• Accredited Service Providers to present CPD
  activities
• Certificates to be issued to attendees
• Accreditors / Professional Board / HPCSA CPD
  Committee to perform compliance checks on
  Accredited Service Providers
• Professional Boards / HPCSA CPD Committee to
  perform compliance checks on accreditors
• Accreditation fees will be prescribed by HPCSA
  CPD Committee

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Compliance

• Compliance with CPD requirements tested in terms
  of random audit of practitioners from all boards
• Audit performed by CPD Department at HPCSA
• Individual CPD Activity Record to be submitted
  within 21 days of selection in audit
• Audit report compiled according to audit results
  and submitted to relevant Boards
• Non compliance by practitioners addressed in
  cooperation with the Board
• Supervised practice
• Board examination
• Collecting of at least 1 years CEUs

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Time frames

• Compulsory CPD accepted by most Professional
  Boards (Sec 26 of the Health Professions Act,
  1974 Act No.56 of 1974.)
• Council approved CPD programme in April 2005.
• All Boards to start with new programme by 1
  January 2007.
• Non-compliance enforcement only kicks in from 31
  December 2008 thus after 2 years.

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• Thank you for your
  attention