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Solutions · Healthcare and social care

The learning happens. The record is what's missing.

Clinicians learn constantly: a case discussion on the ward, a journal article, teaching a junior, a conference session, a peer review. Very little of it reaches a log until somebody asks for it. aircpd captures it as it happens, applies whichever rules that clinician is measured against, and keeps the evidence ready.

The aircpd console · Healthcare and social care

The shape of the problem

Healthcare is the market where the gap between learning and evidence is widest. Registration depends on showing continuing development, employers run their own mandatory training on a separate clock, and specialty and certification bodies add a third. A clinician can be answering to all three at once, with different cycles, different categories and different definitions of what counts.

Meanwhile the evidence itself is scattered. Some sits with course providers, some in an inbox, some in a folder of certificates, and a large share of what a regulator would happily accept was never written down at all. When the renewal or the inspection arrives, somebody reconstructs a year from memory.

How the rules vary

MarketWhat is requiredShape
United States, physiciansState board CME, plus self-claimed credit for activities like reading, teaching and peer consultationHours, set by each state board. Around a quarter of physicians hold more than one state licence
United States, nursingCE set by the home state under the licensure compact, covering practice across 43 jurisdictionsHours, home state governs
United Kingdom, doctorsAnnual appraisal and periodic revalidation. No fixed hours and no minimum set centrallyCompetence based
United Kingdom, pharmacistsA set number of CPD records, a peer discussion and a reflective account, submitted at renewalCount based, tied to each registrant's own renewal date
Ireland, doctors50 hours per cycle, running 1 May to 30 April, across four categories including a mandatory development plan and practice reviewHours with category floors
Care providers, UKStaff must receive the training, support and supervision necessary for their role, judged at inspectionCompetence based, inspected

Where aircpd helps

Capture what currently evaporates.

The journal article, the peer discussion, the teaching session, the conference. aircpd proposes them from a connected calendar and files, and the clinician confirms in one tap. The kind of self-claimed learning that only exists if someone writes it down now writes itself down.

One record, every rulebook.

A clinician on two registers, or licensed in two states, sees one record. aircpd applies each set of rules to the same activity and shows what is still outstanding under each.

Reflection that is actually theirs.

Where a regulator wants a written reflection, aircpd prompts at the point it is still fresh and takes it by voice or text. It never writes the substance. A fabricated reflection is an audit liability.

Your workforce view, without reading anyone's reflections.

Managers see who is on track, at risk or lapsed across a ward, a site or the whole organisation. They never see reflection content or evidence files. The boundary is structural, not a setting.

“Around a quarter of US physicians hold more than one state licence, and much of the learning their board would accept is self-claimed. It only exists if somebody writes it down.”

Who this is for

Medical and nursing directorsEducation and CPD leads in hospitals and trustsCompliance leads at care groupsIndividual clinicians

Where a state or regulator mandates a specific tracking system, aircpd complements it. Everything the clinician does, evidenced in one place, applied to every rulebook they answer to.

Regulators and professional bodies are named to illustrate the markets aircpd is designed for. No partnership or endorsement is implied. Requirements change: this page is a guide, not legal advice.

Start with the record you already have.

Connect your calendar and files, and aircpd will show you the CPD you've already completed this year. Most people are further along than they think.