GDC’s Enhanced CPD

The enhanced CPD scheme is starting on 1 January 2018 for dentists and 1 August 2018 for dental care professionals.

The main changes to the scheme are:

• ​The requirement for all dental professionals to have a personal development plan (PDP);
• An increase in the number of verifiable hours for most professional titles and the requirement to spread the hours more evenly across the five year cycle;
• Dental professionals no longer have to declare non-verifiable CPD to the GDC;
• The requirement to make an annual statement of CPD hours completed, even if zero hours have been completed for that year;
• The requirement to align CPD activity with specific development outcomes;
• The requirement for professionals to plan CPD activity according to their individual “field(s) of practice”.