Personal Development Plans - have you done yours? The Importance of Personal Development Plans When ECPD came in last year, all dentists had to have their Personal Development Plans (PDP) completed and on file by 1 January 2018, all other registrants had to complete theirs by 1 August 2018. Read the full article here.

Being Well-Led 2019 Find out why practices are failing under this CQC Key Line of Enquiry Did you know that the CQC’s Key Lines of Enquiry (KLOEs) changed in April 2018? The reason for this was to condense the existing sets of KLOEs for each type of service (dentists, GPs, etc.) and streamline them into a single set for healthcare. Read more here.

The Good Work Plan - How will this impact you as an employer? Big changes to employment law and staff contracts are coming There are 51 changes to how you manage staff and their contracts that are coming in April 2020, and you’ll need to start to prepare for them soon. Find out more here.

How to manage staff absence The CODE HR team recognise that being appropriately staffed is key to be able to deliver the best possible service to patients. When a team member doesn’t attend work and does not contact you to notify their absence this can be very disruptive. Read the full article here.

iComply Support FAQs Here at CODE we are pleased to be on hand to our members for compliance support and advice. Every day, the iComply Support Team receive calls from users with common questions about the application. We are always happy to answer your questions and help to explain how to carry out a multitude of tasks in iComply. Here are a few of the most frequent enquiries we receive... Read them here.

New and Updated documents from CODE We have updated a number of modules since the last newsletter including the complaints handling and radiography sets. As part of an ongoing project to streamline iComply for our members we have also removed some documents that we feel are no longer needed for compliance management. Read the full list here.

Workplace wellbeing In an ideal world, we all want to be treated equally, regardless of race, religion, gender, etc, especially within the workplace. However, our differences sometimes need understanding and addressing, with policies and procedures put in place in light of this. Read the full article here.