RCCP Professional Bodies Education Committee (PBEC)

• About the PBEC
• RCCP Accredited Provider List (Healthcare Science)
• RCCP Accredited Provider List (Clinical Physiology)
• Information for HEIs (Linked Page)
• PBEC Members
• Access to Year 3 of Degree
• Accreditation Guidelines for Education Providers

• CPD Guidelines for Registrants - November 2012
• Training Centre Guidelines - Aug 2012

• Individual Record Of Clinical Practice - July 2010
• IRCP Assessment Forms

About the PBEC

The RCCP Professional Bodies Education Committee (PBEC) was established in 2002 and has representation from the Association for Respiratory Technology & Physiology (ARTP), Association of GI Physiology (AGIP), The Association of Neurophysiological Scientists (ANS) and the Society for Cardiological Science & Technology (SCST) and the British Academy of Audiology (BAA).

The PBEC functions on behalf of the RCCP and comprises of two members from each of the Disciplines within RCCP, drawn from the Professional Body Education Board.

The remit of PBEC is: -

• Accreditation & on going monitoring of pre registration education provision (both generic and specialist modules)
• Liaison with Education Providers in the provision of Professional Body practical examinations
• Providing advice to all institutions offering qualifying courses in Clinical Physiology
• Setting, maintaining and the raising of standards

Please Note: The Committee Members have full-time posts in working departments and so they also have their own routine workload to handle. Consequently dealing with telephone enquiries is likely to be difficult. Wherever possible, please contact them in writing (email or fax) with any queries that you have that cannot be handled by our Administrative Assistant.

Chair
Trefor Watts
Clinical Measurement Unit
Walsall Manor Hospital
Moat Road
Walsall
WS2 9PS
trefor.watts@walsallhospitals.nhs.uk

Past Chair
Sara Callen
Essex
saracallen@hotmail.com 

Cardiology
Jeffery Davison
Department of Cardiology
Ground Floor North Wing
St Thomas' Hospital
Westminster Bridge Road
London
SE1 7EH 
Tel: 0207 188 1060
jeffery.davison@gstt.nhs.uk

Cardiology
Su Baxter
Head of Cardiology (Good Hope Hospital)
Heart of England Foundation Trust
Cardiology Dept
Rectory Road
Sutton Coldfield
B75 7RR
su.scst@gmail.com

GI
Katherine Mobey
Physiology
Queens Day Unit, Level 4
Bristol Royal Infirmary - Queens Building
Marlborough Street
Bristol
BS2 8HW
katherine.mobey@UHBristol.nhs.uk

GI
Kate Mason
GI Investigation Unit
Chesterman C Floor
Northern General Hospital
Herries Road
Sheffield
S5 7AU
kate.mason@sth.nhs.uk

Respiratory
Adrian Kendrick
Dept. of Resp. Medicine
Bristol Royal Infirmary
Marlborough Street
Bristol
BS2 8HW
adrian.kendrick@UHBristol.nhs.uk

Neuro
Kelly Bill
Service Manager
Neurophysiology
Worcester Royal Hospitals
Charles Hastings Way
Ronkswood
WR5 1DD
Tel: 01905 760697
Kelly.Bill@worcsacute.nhs.uk

Neuro
Peter Walsh
Grey Walter Department of Clinical Neurophysiology
Frenchay Hospital
Frenchay Park Rd
Bristol
BS16 1LE
Tel:  01179 701212 ext 3645
Peter.Walsh@nbt.nhs.uk 

Audiology
Amanda Casey
Director of Rehabilitation Studies
BSc (Honours) Audiology
Vision Sciences
Aston Triangle
Birmingham
B4 7ET
Tel: 0121 204 4110
a.e.a.casey@aston.ac.uk 

Access to year 3 of the degree and professional qualifications:

Entry to year 3 of the Clinical Physiology Degree requires:

1. Appropriate academic entry requirements [which will be judged by education providers]
   
2. Evidence of national assessed professional competence [with the exception of Cardiology]:  This will be the professional body examination in the discipline which the applicant is studying OR the NVQ level III in that particular discipline.
   
3. Cardiology year 3 entrants will require the professional body examination.  The NVQ will not be acceptable.
   

Accreditation Guidelines for Education Providers

The Accreditation Guidelines (Updated Sept 2010) are downloadable via this link.

CPD Guidelines for Registrants

The CPD Guidelines (Updated November 2012) are downloadable via this link.

As part of regulation of clinical physiology practitioners will have to produce evidence of continuing professional development (CPD). This model is developed to provide a manageable, measurable yet simple method for practitioners to keep a record of all development activities which lead to the maintenance and improvement of clinical practice. It is based on reflection on and in practice and over intervals of three years. RCCP will audit 3% of CPD records every 5 years from 2005.

The next audit is due to take place in 2015. We will be contacting any registrants who are randomly selected giving them details of the process.

If you are a member of BAA and submit your CPD through their online facility and you are requested by RCCP to submit your CPD, RCCP will be happy to receive your BAA documentation.

See also Health & Care Professions Council Guidance on CPD.

Training Centre Guidelines for Students

The RCCP raining Centre Guidelines (issued by RCCP PBEC) can be downloaded via this link.

These guidelines are designed for training and assessment in the workplace of Practitioner Training Programme students following the Modernising Scientific Careers Clinical Physiology BSc Programme and are in line with the Health & Care Professions Council, or equivalent, Standards of Education and Training

These are supplemented by the discipline specific guidance below:-

• Cardiology - SCST Best Practice for Work-Based Training
• GI Physiology - AGIP Best Practice for Work-Based Training
• Neurophysiology - ANS Best Practice for Work-Based Training
• Respiratory Physiology - ARTP Best Practice for Work-Based Training

Individual Record Of Clinical Practice

The IRCP documents for each of the disciplines are available below:-

• Audiology IRCP
• Cardiology IRCP
• GI IRCP
• Neurophysiology IRCP
• Respiratory ARTP Part 1 IRCP
• Respiratory ARTP Part 2 IRCP

Assessment Forms

Forms for WBA and IV’s to download and use with candidates are available below:-

Cardiology

• Cardiology - Assessment Feedback
• Cardiology - Assessment Plans
• Cardiology - Completion of assessments
• Cardiology - Evidence Portfolio Witness Testimony
• Cardiology - Question

GI

• GI IRCP Assessment Plans
• GI IRCP Feedback Form

Neurophysiology

• Neurophysiology Assessment Forms

Respiratory

• Respiratory Physiology Assessment Forms