The general competences, and competences for community and hospital pharmacists have been updated, and new ones integrated for primary care, medicines management and other roles. This is to reflect current practice more accurately and to allow the RPSGB to review CPD records more effectively providing more meaningful feedback.
The new competences have been mapped to the old competences. For existing online users, the updated competences have automatically substituted any old competences and a log of what has been substituted is available when users login, areas where an exact match is not found are highlighted to the user. For further information regarding the change to competences please click here.
New CPD Online users and users of CPD Desktop will only see the new competences, so do not need to do anything. The relevant roles or sectors of practice will have to be selected in the Personal Profile section for all the competences relating to your role to be viewed.
Those who are keeping their CPD record on paper can simply start using the new competences and do not need to substitute new for old in their existing record.
Click here to download a copy of the new competences. If you experience any difficulties downloading the files please contact the technical helpdesk on . Alternatively, contact the CPD team on or email to request a paper copy of the competences to be sent to you.
Please note, the competences within the CPD recording system are intended to be a starting point. Users are encouraged to switch-off competences that do not apply to them by using the ‘edit competences’ function found in CPD Online and CPD Desktop and to add their own competences where there appear to be gaps. The competences are there to help pharmacists and pharmacy technicians identify learning needs and to demonstrate how their learning applies to roles they undertake or intend to undertake. Pharmacists and pharmacy technicians are not expected to demonstrate learning against all of the competences that apply to them. Instead they are advised to prioritise and focus on those most in need of development.
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