CPD and remediation learning for every UK healthcare professional

Healthcare Practise UK offers healthcare CPD courses for UK professionals who want learning they can actually use: in an appraisal, in a revalidation portfolio, or in a response to a concern raised with their regulator. There are 92 self-paced courses, written for doctors, nurses and midwives, the 15 HCPC professions, the dental team, pharmacy professionals, optometrists and opticians, osteopaths, chiropractors and social workers in England.

Every course is mapped to the standards your own regulator publishes, such as Good medical practice for doctors or the NMC Code for nurses and midwives. Each one ends with a scored assessment and a written reflection, and you receive a certificate of completion when you pass. You can browse the full course catalogue by regulator or by concern, or start with what your regulator expects if you are not sure where to begin.

We are an independent provider. We do not speak for any regulator, and we will never tell you that a course decides the outcome of a case. What we can do is help you learn, reflect honestly and keep a tidy record of what you have done.

Regulators are clear that a certificate on its own proves very little. What matters is whether the learning was relevant to the concern, whether you understood it, and whether it changed what you do. The NMC's fitness to practise guidance, for example, says decision makers look at how relevant any training is to the concern and how the nurse or midwife has applied it in practice. Social Work England's impairment and sanctions guidance asks for objective evidence, such as completed training, appraisals and feedback from practice, rather than assertion.

That is why every course here is built the same way:

• Mapped content. Each course names the regulator standards it relates to, so you can explain why you chose it.
• A scored assessment. Most courses end with 15 scenario-based questions and a pass mark of 80%. The Fitness to Practise course has 40 questions.
• A written reflection. The final section asks you to write about what you learned and what you will do differently, in your own words.
• A dated certificate. Issued in the name of Healthcare Practise UK, so you have a record of what you completed and when.

The reflection is the part that carries weight. Our reflective statement builder gives you regulator-specific prompts and checks that you have not included anything that could identify a patient or colleague. It helps you structure your thinking; it does not write the statement for you.

The pathway is free to start and runs in your browser. It has seven steps, and you can move between them and come back at any point.

1. Your situation. Pick your regulator, the type of concern (for example probity, clinical competence, boundaries or record keeping) and the stage you are at, from a first complaint through to a review hearing.
2. Readiness check. Answer 18 short self-assessment questions based on what regulators publish about insight, remediation, reflection, testimonials, CPD and risk of repetition. You get a list of gaps, not a score that predicts anything.
3. Courses. See the courses that address your concern, each with a line explaining why it is there. You can buy them one at a time or together as a bundle, and mark each as planned or completed.
4. Reflection. Use prompts that follow the structure your regulator recognises to draft a reflective statement in your own words.
5. Testimonials. List the people you will ask and produce a clear request that explains the concern to them.
6. Timeline. Enter your key dates and get suggested target dates for each task, working backwards from any deadline.
7. Evidence portfolio. Put your readiness summary, courses, reflection, testimonial list and action plan into one document you can print or save.

If you already know which concern you are dealing with, the course bundles by concern show the recommended set for each one and explain why every course is included.

UK healthcare regulation is split between nine bodies, and each one writes its own standards, CPD rules and fitness to practise guidance. The table below gives the headline CPD or revalidation requirement for each. The full detail, with links to the regulator's own pages, is on our regulators hub.

Self-paced online learning counts differently under each scheme. The GOC, for instance, limits how much self-directed CPD can count, and our courses are not GOC-approved CPD. The NMC wants 20 of your 35 hours to involve other people. We would rather tell you that up front than have you find out at renewal.

Courses are bought and taken on our course portal. You can add a single course or a whole bundle to your basket and pay in pounds sterling. Prices are shown live from the portal, so the figure you see on a course page is the current one.

Each course is self-paced, so you can work through it around your shifts and other commitments. When you finish the content you take the assessment, and once you pass you receive a certificate of completion to keep with your appraisal or revalidation records.

There is a fuller walk-through, including what happens if something goes wrong with an order, on the how it works page. You can also read who we are and how we work, including how we check our content against regulator guidance and how often we review it.