The CPD Storage Solution

Article 999’s CPD templates are hosted on Airtable and present as a database with an intuitive, simple form. The form allows you to tag your standards of proficiency, standards of CPD, important skills and personal development goals, as well as entering your reflections, uploading your certificates, and logging feedback you have received from others. Each element can then be exported separately, fulfilling triple requirements:

Your personal, searchable storage solution for CPD. Can’t remember when you did X course? Search the database to find the certificate. Can’t remember the last cardiac arrest you attended to, or the last CPD entry you logged? Search the calendar or the database as a whole.
Your CPD portfolio, available on request by link or by export for employers. Note, you may need to copy and paste elements into a Word document to export.
Your CPD portfolio for HCPC audits. Not everyone knows this, but the HCPC do not want one single document sent to them. They want statements, copied and pasted into their system. They want evidence, uploaded separately, one at a time, into their system. They then want your list of CPD activities uploaded on its own – and they don’t want to read everything. So it’s worthwhile for you to store everything, then when it comes to actually submitting, simply tick next to the entries you want to ‘feature’ – and export those.

I’ll admit, Article 999’s templates probably aren’t a solution for everyone. They are best for you if you are someone who:

has not found a CPD template or storage solution that offers everything that you want.
has previously kept your CPD in organised folders, spreadsheets, OneNote, or an (old) Microsoft Access database – maybe you’ve even had a go at making your own database or spreadsheet.
values being able to store everything – certificates, reflections, skills logs, feedback, and your CPD activities (because after all, these are all CPD activities!) in one place.
values being able to log all of the above from one form – every element mentioned in the point above is a CPD entry, something that is ultimately centered around your CPD.
- (Example): If you ask for a list of my CPD I will show you that two days ago I wrote a detailed reflection, yesterday I attended an event that has an attendance certificate, and today I taught airway skills. Today I also had a conversation with a colleague about a clinical subject, and I received some feedback. All of these are CPD activities according to the HCPC, so why should we have to log them all separately?

Convinced? Head here to get access.