Impact on the compliance of recording CPD activity following introduction of PP

Karen Reed SCP Union Learning Fund Project worker.

Email: karen@scpod.org

overview• The context of the case study and background• How and why we undertook our work• The results of our research• The impact and lessons we learnt

About the Society of Chiropodists & Podiatrist

• The leading professional and educational body• TUC affiliated Union• Major role in providing CPD for members• No difference between a Chiropodist & Podiatrist!

Why PebblePad?• Grant from Union Learning Fund • Cost effective system for recording CPD• Existing tool on members website – simplistic

Why PebblePad?• Grant from Union Learning Fund• Cost effective system for recording CPD• Existing tool on members website – simplistic• Tool for recording CPD ready for Audit• Encourages reflective practice• Recruitment tool for Union Learning Reps

How?• Licences and training via a network of Union

Learning Reps• Cascade train members• NHS Trusts and SCP Branches• Baseline questionnaire –

o ICT skills & confidence, o CPD habits o Expectations o Barriers

What did we achieve• 471 licenses / questionnaires issued • 288 responses – 48% • 12 months later – 2nd follow-up questionnaire• Response – 80 (response rate ?) • June 2011

• 171 Active accounts, • 147 never logged in

ICT Skills

Before PebblePad

• ICT skills– 43% confident or very

confident– 47% OK– 9% Not very confident

After PebblePad

• 15% more confident in using ICT

CPD Portfolios

Before PebblePad

• 31% had system in place• 14 members use the SCP

Website CPD tool– (45 had used it at some point)

After PebblePad

• 92% System in place• 46% use PebblePad + backup• 13% PebblePad • 4% Stuff bits of paper in boxes• 6.5% (5) people use the SCP

Website

Barriers to use

Before PebblePad

• Perceived barriers– lack of time at home – 48%– Lack of time at work – 32%– Fear of getting something

wrong – 32%– Limited computer skills – 83%

After PebblePad

• Actual barriers– Lack of time at home – 57%– Lack of time at work – 57%– Fear of getting something

wrong – 7%– Limited computer skills – 7%

Barriers• “At the moment anyone working in the NHS is

under more pressure than at any other time, certainly within my career, and unfortunately there are so many changes that we wonder if we will have jobs for much longer. Perhaps this makes PebblePad less of a priority”

• NHS Podiatrist

• “Everyone at work are pretty unmotivated and fed up with the current NHS situation so finding the time and effort to use PebblePad is unfortunately beening put on the backburner by most - which I can understand”.

• NHS Podiatrist

Impact• Increase in number of members with CPD

system in place• Increase in ICT confidence • Anecdotal evidence – popular with members• Continue to get request for licences• Use by Faculty of Podiatric Surgery for training

purposes

Lessons learnt• Recording CPD low priority amongst members• Time pressures• Administration glitches • Over zealous fire walls in the NHS• Cascade training not effective• Excellent tool for reflective practice

In summary• PebblePad can provide professional membership

organisations with a low cost solution to assist members with the recording and storing CPD.

• The use of PebblePad can provide a tool to help members with poor ICT skills gain confidence and provide a platform for them to ‘have a go’ at using Information Communication Technology.

• The reflective platform used by PebblePad, allows the user to participate in reflective practice and can help make it part of the routine CPD recording process.

Thank you• Any (easy) questions?