What is UK-CHIP?
• The UK Council for Health Informatics Professions
(UKCHIP) was formed in 2002 to promote
professionalism in Health Informatics (HI).
• It operates a Voluntary Registration Scheme for HI
professionals who agree to work to clearly defined
standards.
• Initially Registration will be voluntary, although it is
expected that, in the future, the NHS will expect
anyone working in Health Informatics to be
registered.
• Eventually it is envisaged that Statutory Registration
will be introduced to protect the interests of the
public
Why is CPD important?
• All health informatics professionals shall
exercise their professional skills and
judgement to the best of their ability and
discharge their duties with integrity by:
5. Ensuring that they, and any persons under
their supervision, have the necessary
knowledge and competence to undertake
their duties, and conversely that no person
knowingly works beyond their current
competence except as part of a properly
supervised training and development
programme.
Why is CPD important?
• The primary purpose of a professional
registration body is to protect the public.
• UKCHIP believes that informatics has now
reached a level of use that means that
bad informatics practice could harm a
member of the public.
• A major part of that protection is to seek to
ensure that all registrants are competent to
practice.
What UK-CHIP will do in CPD
• Promote the importance of CPD
• Develop/adopt standards required
• Work with other organisations
• Check compliance at re-registration or
in the event of a complaint
• Check prospective planning at reregistration
• Encourage personal development
beyond current competence
What UK-CHIP will not do in CPD
• Run courses and events
• Give blanket accreditations
• Measure CPD activity in terms of hours
or points
A vision of CPD activity
Aspirational
Encouragement
Developmental
Facilitation
Required
Regulation
Required CPD
• Activity needed to maintain your
competence determined by your
– Professional constituency
– Job role
– Registration level
• Is not just about time spent
• Is personal to the registrant
• Requires a framework
A framework for CPD
• The framework needed is
multidimensional and needs to define
competency for a given
– Professional role
• At a given
– Registration level
A framework for CPD
• Professional
categories:
– Clinical
– Information
manager
– Information
technologist
– Knowledge
manager
– Academic
• Registration levels:
– Level 1
– Level 2
– Level 3
Evidence of CPD
• Education
• Self directed learning
• Conference attendance
• Reflection on practice
• Reflection on experience
• BUT only if it can be demonstrated that
is relevant to my development needs
Evidence of CPD: HC 2005
• 3 days spent sitting
in sessions listening
to the same people
say the same things
they did last year
• 1 day spent in
Betty’s tea shop
conversing with
patients over their
experiences of
problems with
informatics
Evidence of CPD
• Emergency
admission to
hospital: 3 month
patient episode
with kidney stones
• Writing my 13th
book.
• (Available from all
good bookshops in the
Autumn, entitled
“Surviving IT”)
Developmental CPD
• UKCHIP seeks to encourage all
registrants to develop themselves
beyond their current level of
competence:
– Developmental CPD is activity designed
to equip registrants to achieve specific
goals
– Aspirational CPD is activity undertaken for
its won sake
Timescales
• 2002 UKCHIP established
• 2004 Voluntary registrations taken
• 2004 Principles of CPD established
• 2004 Rudimentary scheme
implemented
• 2005 Council elections
• 2008/9? Compulsory registration in
NHS; full CPD scheme req’d
Progress to date
• Principles established
• CPD concepts introduced to many
new staff
• Rudimentary scheme in place
• Outline of framework agreed
Next steps
• Agree detail of framework
• Liaise with other bodies
• Develop detailed full CPD process
• Implement full CPD in time for
compulsory registration
• Establish a monitoring system
Thank you!