Does your practice pay for the CPD for staff?
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Does your practice pay for the CPD for the staff? Or do the nurses have to pay for their own?
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We pay for the core CPD verifiable but they are responsible for the non-veri themselves.
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At the Practice where I work everybody pays for their own.
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We often arrange lunch/learn programmes from the dental companies/suppliers during the day which are CPD verifiable and usually FOC.
We have purchased the CPD 4 DCPs workbooks, which the staff use to fulfil their requirements.
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We pay for all employed staff CPD at Bourne End Dental
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We agreed to pay for all core subjects but the employee loses the hourly rate if it is on their day of work, but if the principal requests you to go on a course out of the core subjects then the course and hourly rate is paid.
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We pay for the CPD but they do it on their own time. And they need to recognise that we are making a big goodwill gesture….!
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We pay for all the CPD. The only thing we don’t pay for is the radiology course as we have no use for that.
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Yes we do pay for CPD. Obviously if it is an in surgery training such as cross infection or resuccitation the practice pays & we purchased the FMC publication Team in Practice which provides all the required CPD. It is accessible for staff & economical for us. We also pay registration & BADN membership.
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We pay for core courses like first aid, radiology and childprotection.
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Our Practice will sometimes help us depending on the course!
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We pay for all CPD and any they do out of their normal working hours is paid at time and a half.
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We do actually pay for our nurses. We buy CPD in Practice which covers all verifiable and non verifiable GDC’s annual requirements and includes all GDC compulsory subjects.
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We pay annually for an in house emergency procedures training. We also provide two in house training days per annum which are verifiable.
We have also paid for all staff to attend the annual British Orthodontic Society conference.
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All our nurses pay their own CPD except for the meetings of the Exeter CPD group and our local BDA meetings which the practice pays for. We do quite alot of training in-house at our monthly practice meetings and if this is appropiate we class it as verifiable – ie with evaluation forms and certificates.
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We do currently pay all of our nurses reg fees. Originally we agreed to pay the first three years for any registering nurse. We are now paying our fifth year. Mainly this is because we know that it is more easily afforded by us as a practice than by the individual living on a budget. Our nurses have been open to the idea of paying us back by taking a little from their wages each month but we have not yet done this.
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We pay for all of the core CPD subjects for all staff even non clinical staff plus 2 additional courses per year. They also get paid for the two days they are at the courses.
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The way I manage the CPD and registration fees for my team is by a payment of £250 per year to each DCP. This is divided into 12 and paid with salary as ‘registration’ each DCP received the same whether they are part-time or not as the CPD and registration has similar costs for each team member.
I also give paid study leave up to 15 hour per year as I was paying overtime for the team to attend CPD courses.
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Our practice pays but I book a lot of lunch and learns which are free + lunch included.
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Yes, our practice pays for all CPD we currently do the majority of this through the CPD for DCP’s module.
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We pay the DCP’s ARF for GDC and any courses/in-house training for nurses and reception staff that benefit the practice by way of increasing their knowledge and skills, including all necessary GDC CPD for employed nurses. Self-employed hygienists and dentists also attend the in-house training and don’t need to contribute financially. The latter pay for their own external courses.
The bill has gone up since new regulations, CQC and HTM01-05 came into force!
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We pay for the courses that they have to do, then give them a £100.00 per annum allowance, but we only let them use it for courses that we think will benfit the practice as well. If they want to do a course that is of interest to them alone, then we expect them to fund it themselves. Works well for us!
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If the CPD is for in-house training then the practice will pay, but if the course is out of practice then the staff pay for themselves.
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We pay for all staff CPD at the moment. It is purely at the practice owner’s discretion as far as I am aware.
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Yes, up to now the practice has organised, and paid for all staff CPD. One staff member has been unable to come to some of these sessions, and is lacking in hours, she is expected to find alternative CPD to catch up, and may therefore have to pay for this part on her own.
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Yes, we fund our staff’s CPD. Although we don’t necessarily have to, it is a great motivator for the staff and we have benefited from this.
We use www.ProDental.com which is has been popular amongst the team. My biggest bugbear about CPD is that most of it isn’t very measurable, but Pro Dental has a test at the end with a certificate you can print off at the end.
We also provide CPR and training days with Denplan, and recently internal with our dentists going over treatments such as Cerec etc. to improve their product knowledge.
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We only cover the Medical Emerg, disinfection, CPR – they hunt the web relentlessly for any free CPD, the dental nurse network is a good one!!!
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Depending on the course and agreement with the nurse concerned, we either pay for the day off or for the course for a dental nurse.
July 2012
