We are nearing the end of the GDC's 2024-2025 Continuing Professional Development (CPD) cycle year, with the annual period concluding on 31st July 2025. Submitting your CPD declaration is an essential part of maintaining your GDC registration, so let's ensure it's on your radar and completed smoothly.
What You Need to Do
As a dental nurse, you are required to complete a minimum of fifty hours of verifiable CPD across your five-year cycle. Alongside accumulating your hours, remember to:
- Keep all certificates from your CPD courses as proof of completion.
- Maintain a CPD log detailing all completed activities.
- Have a Personal Development Plan (PDP) that outlines your intended CPD and its relevance to your role.
- Complete reflective learning for all CPD to demonstrate your understanding and how it applies to your practice.
Don't Get Caught Out: the Ten-Hour Rule
The GDC states you must do at least ten hours of verifiable CPD every two years.
At Dental Nurse Network, we know this specific two-year requirement can sometimes cause confusion and has regrettably tripped up dental nurses in the past. We've personally spoken to nurses who made an error, thinking they'd covered a previous year, only to find they'd missed two consecutive years.
This is why we personally recommend aiming for a minimum of five hours of verifiable CPD every year. This approach helps ensure you're consistently meeting the ‘ten hours every two years’ rule and will definitely have the right number of hours at the end of your five-year cycle, preventing any accidental gaps.
Even if you complete a course that gives you a lot of CPD hours in one go, we still advise doing some CPD within the following year. You don't want to accidentally fall short of completing at least the minimum required hours for any two-year period.
Logging Your CPD
The GDC requires that you log your CPD on the eGDC website by 28th August 2025. It's important that your annual statement detailing the number of verifiable CPD hours completed between 1st August 2024 and 31st July 2025 is submitted by this date.
Need Free Verifiable CPD?
If you haven't yet explored our free CPD, Dental Nurse Network has free CPD available to help you meet your requirements. We encourage you to visit our academy site and take advantage of our free resources here.
We're also excited to invite you to a free webinar on The Role of the IPC Lead on Tuesday, 09 September at 7:00 pm. This will be a live, interactive session led by Stephanie Carter, where we'll discuss the vital importance of the IPC Lead role. We'd love for you to join us!
Please click here to register for the webinar.
One hour of verifiable CPD will be awarded upon completion of our webinar, quiz and feedback.
