CPD Entitlement
a. The GP Retainee is entitled to the pro rata full time equivalent of one protected session per week for Continuing Professional Development (CPD). Even a GP temporarily working only one session a week will be entitled to a minimum of 8 sessions of CPD per year. This provision is in line with the model salaried GP contracts within new GMS.
b. Leave is to be taken to attend CPD; or, if CPD sessions take place at a time when not normally working, can be taken as time off in lieu.
c. Personal Development Plans for Retainer Scheme GPs should be locally agreed dependent upon the needs of the individual GP and their post.
d. Some of the Retainee’s CPD sessions will be spent in the practice (e.g. practice clinical meetings, regular sessions with the educational supervisor, and practice audits all count as CPD time). However, not all of it may be used in this way; Retainees must be able to use it to fulfil their own personal educational needs as identified in their PDP.
Calculation for CPD
Basis of contract from GMS2
Full time as defined by clause 4 of the model standard contract terms and conditions:
“Full-Time General Practitioners will normally be contracted to work 37 ½ hours per working week (“contracted hours”), such hours being divided into nine nominal sessions. Such sessions may be divided up into specific working periods by mutual agreement.”
And Clause 50 states:
“At least four hours per week (pro rata) on an annualised basis shall be protected for activities
related to professional development as in the agreed job plan.”
4 sessions p.w. 19 sessions CPD p/a
3 sessions p.w. 15 sessions CPD p/a
2 sessions p.w. 10 sessions CPD p/a
1 session p.w. 8 sessions CPD p/a
The table below is adapted from the BMA’s guidance document “Focus on Salaried GPs”:
http://www.bma.org.uk/employmentandcontracts/employmentcontracts/salaried_gps/FocusSalariedGps0604.jsp.
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No. of sessions per week
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No. of sessions p/a
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No. of
A/L*sessions p/a
|
No. of B/H*
sessions p/a
|
Remaining no.
of sessions
|
Sessions
of CPD
|
Clinical
Sessions
|
|
X
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X x 52
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X x 6
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X/9 x 20
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y
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Y/9=z
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y-z
|
|
1
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52
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6
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2
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52- (6+2) = 44
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8 †
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36
|
|
2
|
104
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12
|
5
|
104-(12+5)=87
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10
|
77
|
|
3
|
156
|
18
|
7
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156-(18+7)=131
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15
|
116
|
|
4
|
208
|
24
|
9
|
208-(24+9)=175
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19
|
156
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* A/L = Annual Leave: B/H = Bank Holidays
† Although according to the calculation this figure would be 5, Retainer Scheme GPs are entitled to a minimum of 8 protected sessions per year for CPD regardless of working hours.
(This Appendix is taken from Guidelines issued by the London Deanery)