Continuing Professional Development

CPD for healthcare professionals

The aim of Continuing Professional Development (CPD) in healthcare is to enhance patient care quality and safety. It's your responsibility as a healthcare professional to identify your CPD needs, plan how to address them, and engage in activities that support your professional growth. Attending the HETT Show is an excellent way to stay updated on industry advancements. It's free for NHS, public sector, not-for-profit, and academic/research workers. As an accredited CPD provider, we offer Certificates of Attendance post-conference upon request. Email enquiries@hettshow.co.uk for a Certificate.

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Recording your CPD

Healthcare professionals are required to undertake 35 hours of relevant continuing professional development (CPD) over three years before renewing your registration. 20 hours must involve participatory learning. You must maintain accurate CPD records including a description of the topic and how it’s related to your practice, dates, hours (including participatory), relevant Code section, and evidence of completion. Click the link to read a useful article on ‘CPD requirements for Healthcare Professionals‘ written by CPD.

What do our visitors say?

  • James Freed, CIO, Health Education England

    Whether you work for a national, local or private sector organisation, a supplier, an academic partner or local government, we all have our own perspectives on healthcare. When we bring those perspectives together we start to see some real magic happen, and that's what I'm seeing at HETT.

  • Liz Ashall-Payne, CEO, ORCHA

    HETT is really an amazing event to attend. It brings together all the different partners of the system, the content is fantastic, the exhibitors are here, and the energy is great. I think what we will see is that after this event things are going to actually happen - people won't just be going back to their day jobs.

  • Sam Shah, Chair, HETT Steering Committee

    The important thing about HETT is that it is inclusive. It has a range of different topics for a range of different stakeholders in the digital ecosystem, but in a format that brings people together around these topics. Also, the panels have been made up of people on the ground delivering services, products and programmes who've got the experience of what they've been through and can share that with others.

  • Tara Donnelly, Chief Digital Officer, NHSX

    HETT is a great event which I really look forward to attending. There's always a really good mix of speakers and people in the industry to catch up with - from innovators to people from health and care.

  • Ijeoma Azodo, Associate Director, Clinical Health and Service Design, University of Edinburgh & Shuri Network

    HETT is this space where everyone comes together - developers, suppliers, national bodies, practitioners - to talk about what they do and discover what solutions are out there. As the definition of who is a 'healthcare provider' expands beyond the traditional nurse, support worker or doctor to also include national policy bodies and tech R&D teams, an event like HETT enables us to figure out how to work together, speak the same language and uphold the values of health and care.

  • Lisa Emery, CIO, Royal Marsden NHS FT

    HETT is a great networking opportunity and has an important combination of suppliers to discover and have 1-2-1 meetings with, alongside the content, which has been very popular again this year. It's been great to see how many people have listened to panels and interacted with their peers and then followed that up in more depth afterwards. It's important to have different perspectives involved - our Deputy CIO, our CNIO, a couple of our Project Managers working on the Digital Workplace, and some of our clinicians have all attended this year.

  • Kevin Percival, CNIO, Frimley Health NHS FT

    As a CNIO, attending an event like HETT gives me an opportunity to sense check the direction of our digital transformation journey and have those critical conversations with exhibitors to explore the whole market.

  • Carol Read, NHS Digital Academy

    Congratulations to the #HETT team for an amazing event and for developing a digital health community now and for the future. A premier event in the calendar.

  • eHealth Facilitator, NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde

    What I benefited the most from HETT was the vast array of topics to choose from and attend. The successful application of technology, the simplicity of relevance of the subject matter, the inclusivity of everyone and engagement has been an experience that will stay with me for a long time.

  • Associate CNIO - Community Nursing, NHSX

    A must-attend annual event that's not to be missed! Great packed event, amazing speakers, great insight into extraordinary innovative work by extraordinary people. Inspiring, thought-provoking, stimulating and well organised.