CPD for Nursing and Healthcare Training Providers
If you deliver non-clinical training — safeguarding awareness, communication, leadership — to nurses and healthcare professionals, and you're unsure how that fits alongside NMC or HCPC requirements, you're not missing something obvious. Open CPD isn't set up to accredit clinical procedures training, and it doesn't need to be. For the large volume of non-clinical CPD that healthcare organisations commission every day, a structured, verifiable certificate is exactly the evidence NMC revalidation and HCPC's continuous record both ask for.
What CPD accreditation actually means for a nursing and healthcare training provider
The NMC revalidation framework requires registered nurses and midwives to complete 35 hours of CPD every three years, at least 20 of them participatory — a condition of remaining on the register, not a guideline. The HCPC (Health and Care Professions Council) takes a different approach for allied health professionals: no fixed hour count, but an expectation of a continuous, up-to-date and relevant record of learning. A lack of a hours requirement should never be read as a lack of rigour.
This is where the clinical versus non-clinical distinction matters. Clinical training — direct patient care, clinical decision-making, regulated clinical skills — sits within tightly controlled frameworks overseen by Medical Royal Colleges, the NMC and the HCPC. Non-clinical training — safeguarding awareness, infection prevention at awareness level, equality and diversity, conflict resolution, manual handling, leadership development for healthcare managers — is essential to safe, effective care but does not require a Royal College stamp to be credible.
SAS doctors (Staff and Associate Specialist) have their own CPD obligations sitting within NHS appraisal and revalidation processes, and their learning needs are often overlooked by providers who focus only on nursing. Structured, non-clinical CPD serves this group's appraisal evidence just as directly as it serves nurses' revalidation portfolios.
Open CPD offers a simple 3 step process for you
Run your non-clinical safeguarding, communication or leadership session for healthcare staff as you already do.
Log in, set up the course profile, outcomes, hours, delivery mode, and accredit with one click.
Branded CPD certificates and digital badges are generated instantly for every learner.
What healthcare professionals and employers actually check
A nurse building an NMC revalidation portfolio, an HCPC registrant maintaining their continuous learning record, or a care manager compiling CQC inspection evidence all need the same underlying thing: proof that non-clinical training was structured and genuinely completed, not just attended.
A verifiable certificate with a unique reference number gives each of them a chain of evidence they can check directly — for the nurse, it strengthens a revalidation submission; for the care home manager, it's auditable on inspection day; for an employer reviewing a candidate's learning history, it's more than a piece of paper.
Each certificate resolves to an achievement page anyone can open, no login, no PDF attachment.
Your logo and course name lead. Certificates are powered by Open CPD, issued by you.
Once issued, the record is stored immutably and stays tamper-proof, the date and detail cannot drift.
How this plays out for nursing and healthcare training providers
A safeguarding-for-health-and-social-care provider delivering to NHS trusts, care homes and voluntary organisations can serve nurses seeking NMC revalidation hours, HCPC-registered social workers, and unregistered care staff whose employers need documented evidence — all from the same accredited course structure.
None of that requires the provider to become an awarding body or pay fees associated with established accreditation bodies. They document the course once, and every certificate issued from it carries the same verifiable record.
The NMC and HCPC set CPD requirements for registrants — Open CPD documents the non-clinical training that supports them
Open CPD is not set up to accredit clinical procedures training, and it doesn't replace NMC or HCPC registration requirements. For the substantial volume of non-clinical CPD — safeguarding, communication, leadership, workforce development — that healthcare organisations commission, it gives providers a structured, verifiable certificate professionals can use directly as revalidation or appraisal evidence.
Accredit your first healthcare CPD course this week
Ready to see exactly how the structure comes together, aims, skills, outcomes, and the verification record that ties it all together? [How It Works](https://open-cpd.com/how-it-works/) walks through the full mechanism. Or [start now](https://open-cpd.com/opencpddemo/) and set up your first healthcare course profile in minutes.