27 February 2026
The HCPC’s second annual CPD week, running from 2 March is offering a number of resources to help support your ongoing learning and career development
As part of the HCPC’s CPD week, the HCPC are encouraging all its registered members to take the opportunity to learn something new and improve their skills. Every day next week, from 2 March to 6, the HCPC will be hosting a learning webinar to support ongoing development of skills and knowledge. Ranging across topics, each webinar is free to access. The webinars are:
- Your guide to CPD profiles and audits
Monday 2 March 2026, 1pm - How professionalism affects your practice
Tuesday 3 March 2026, 1pm - Your communication and social media
Wednesday 4 March 2026, 1pm - EDI and your practice
Thursday 5 March 2026, 1pm - Understanding scope of practice at advanced levels of practice: a learning session
Friday 6 March 2026, 1pm
To register for the webinars visit the HCPC’s website and sign up.
What is CPD and why is it so important?
In addition to the webinars, the HCPC hope to encourage all members including RCSLT members to consider their own CPD and different ways they can add to their knowledge base to support service users and strengthen the profession.
Continuing Professional Development (CPD) is an essential part of keeping up to date with clinical and knowledge and best practice and is a key component of meeting HCPC standards. It covers all and every opportunity to learn and improve your knowledge, brush up on skills or find out something new. This could be through attending a course or conference, shadowing a colleague or on the job learning. It could even include listening to podcast or reading articles in our very own Bulletin magazine. As long as you’re taking opportunities to bolster and expand your knowledge and skill set, it all counts as CPD.
HCPC audits and CPD
While CPD should be undertaken year round, there are certain points in time where it’s more important than ever to know that you’ve kept up to date with your CPD. During each annual renewal period, the HCPC asks all registrants to confirm that they are meeting its standards (which includes CPD) and every 2 years, the HCPC runs their audit, where a sample of registrants are asked to provide evidence of their continuing CPD. Monitoring CPD in this way ensures that all health professionals are keeping up to date with best practice and changing standards to deliver the best standard of care and support to service users at all times.
RCSLT resources to help support your CPD
We have a number of different resources tailor made to support you in your career and whatever specialism you practice in available throughout the year. We create clinical guidance, podcasts which will keep you up to speed on the latest developments in the sector and a number of specific tools and frameworks which can be applied to your work.
Our Professional Development Framework for example is a UK-wide resource that has been designed to help identify the learning and professional development needs across the whole career span, at all levels of experience.
Learning and Development Manager Mark Singleton shares how you can your use the framework in your work
Our bespoke CPD diary can be used to keep track of all the different types of learning you do and is an easy way to evidence your learning across the year should you be selected for a HCPC audit.
Next steps
For more information on the HCPC’s CPD week and how you can get involved, visit the HCPC website or you can find out more about the RCSLTs approach to CPD through our website
