Training courses
The most familiar form of CPD: structured courses, from a half-day to several weeks, focused on a subject or a defined set of skills. We accredit the design, the learning outcomes, and the way completion is assessed.
What we accredit
What can you get CPD accredited?
CPD accreditation covers a wide range of learning. If your activity has clear learning outcomes and a way to evidence them, AssuredCPD can almost certainly accredit it — from a single webinar to a full programme. Here are the most common formats we assess.
Workshops
Hands-on, practical sessions where learners do as much as they listen. We look at how the activities build real capability and how outcomes are evidenced.
Seminars
Shorter, focused sessions — often a few hours — that go deep on a single topic, usually with discussion. Accreditation confirms the learning is substantive and well-structured.
Webinars
Live or recorded online sessions delivered to a remote audience. We assess the learning design and the check on understanding, not just attendance.
Conferences & events
Multi-session events, keynotes, and breakout programmes. We can accredit the event as a whole or individual sessions, with CPD hours allocated to what learners actually complete.
Online & e-learning
Self-paced digital courses with video, reading, and interactive elements. We review content quality, the assessment method, and the CPD-hour justification.
In-house & bespoke training
Internal or client-commissioned programmes built for a specific organisation. Accreditation gives your bespoke training the same independent quality mark as your public courses. How in-house training is assessed →
Microlearning & digital resources
Short modules, learning bites, and structured digital resources. If there is a clear learning outcome and a way to evidence it, it can be accredited — with proportionate CPD hours.
Coaching & mentoring programmes
Structured developmental programmes with defined objectives and review points. We assess the framework, the outcomes, and how progress is captured.
Don't see your format? If it teaches something and learning can be evidenced, it's very likely accreditable. Submit it and a named assessor will tell you within five working days — or just ask us first.
The same standard, whatever the format
Assessed against one published framework.
However your learning is delivered, it's judged against the same six domains — learning design, outcomes, delivery, assessment, CPD-hour justification, and currency. No hidden criteria; the bar is the same for a workshop and an online course.
See the Standards Framework- Any format — in person, live online, or self-paced.
- Single sessions or full programmes.
- Public courses or bespoke, in-house training.
- CPD hours allocated to what learners actually complete.
CPD requirements by profession
What the professional bodies actually ask for
Different bodies set CPD very differently — some in hours, some in outputs. These guides summarise each one’s published requirement, and are honest about what independent accreditation does and does not mean for it.
GDC (dental)
100 hours for dentists, 75 or 50 for DCPs across a five-year cycle — and every hour must be verifiable.
GPhC (pharmacy)
Four CPD records a year, two of them planned, plus a peer discussion and a reflective account.
HCPC
No hours target at all — standards-based, with a random 2.5% of each profession audited at renewal.
Social Work England
No hours: at least two pieces of CPD a year, one with a peer reflection, recorded by 30 November.
RCVS (vets and vet nurses)
35 hours a year for vets, 15 for nurses, plus reflection in 1CPD — and almost no restriction on what counts.
Architects (ARB and RIBA)
ARB sets no hours but requires reflected, recorded CPD; RIBA Chartered Members need 35 hours a year, 20 on ten core topics.
SRA (solicitors)
The 16-hour rule went in 2016. An annual declaration of competence replaced it.
CIOB
25 hours a year, 12 of them fixed across four core themes — and the old points system is gone.
ICAEW
20, 30 or 40 hours depending on your category, plus one independently verifiable hour of ethics.
ACCA
40 CPD units a year — 21 verifiable, 19 not. One unit is one hour, and only verifiable units carry forward.
CILEX
No hours for most members: nine CPD outcomes a year, five of them planned, plus a professionalism activity.
NMC revalidation
35 hours of CPD every three years, 20 of them participatory — and why solo e-learning alone fails it.
IOSH
30 hours a year for Chartered members, logged in Blueprint, with a CPD year that runs from your renewal date.
RICS
20 hours a year, at least 10 structured, plus mandatory hours on ethics, sustainability and technology.
CIPD
No mandatory hours at all — an outputs-based model, around 30 hours recommended and three records a year.
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