CPD for clinical support roles: I develop clinical guidelines

Practice evaluation (category 1)

• Facilitate or participate in an analysing healthcare outcomes (AHO) activity with a small group of colleagues on a published report of outcome data and evidence-based care relevant to the area in which you develop clinical guidelines (for example: perioperative medicine, acute pain, procedural pain medicine). Topic examples are in the AHO CPD guideline.
• Participate in clinical governance/quality assurance committee work relevant to your scope of practice where the committee work involves:
  • reviewing clinical care outcomes or activities which support clinical care outcomes
  • reviewing guidelines, standards, performance data, incident data or monitoring implementation of recommendations/actions taken to support relevant safety and quality outcomes.
    
    Examples include safety and quality committees, regional/national mortality committees, medication and blood safety committee, clinical governance committees, and accreditation committees.
• Undertake a critical reflection on your clinical guideline development work and develop a plan for practice change. Potential reflection topics are listed under key areasLocating and evaluating evidence; Reviewing and applying evidence to guideline development; Consulting on draft guidelines; Implementing guidelines; Monitoring emerging evidence and updating guidelines.
• Participate in a cultural safety activitySee the Support across work roles > Providing a culturally safe practice tab for more information with a view to better understanding cultural safety and implications for your guideline development practice. Following this activity, consider undertaking a critical reflection on what you have learnt and what it means for your practice.
• Conduct a practice audit (clinical support) relevant to your guideline development practice. Potential topics for audit include are in the practice audit (clinical support) CPD guideline and key areas to considerLocating and evaluating evidence; Reviewing and applying evidence to guideline development; Consulting on draft guidelines; Implementing guidelines; Monitoring emerging evidence and updating guidelines.
• Participate in design/re-design/co-design patient care pathways. Claim under review patient pathways.

Knowledge & skills (category 2)

• Read peer-reviewed journals relevant to your guideline development work and claim this as journal reading.
• Attend face-to-face or virtual learning sessions relevant to your guideline development practice (for example: conferences, podcasts, webinars; see key areas to considerLocating and evaluating evidence; Reviewing and applying evidence to guideline development; Consulting on draft guidelines; Implementing guidelines; Monitoring emerging evidence and updating guidelines). Claim time spent doing this under learning sessions.
• Present on a topic relevant to your guideline development practice at a conference/other meeting. Claim time spent doing this under presenting.
• Participate in face-to-face or virtual small group learning which may include teaching or learning a new skill relevant to your guideline development practice, and which has an interactive and/or hands on component. An example is a plain English writing course. Claim this under short format learning.