Bill Harvey: The final countdown

As the autumn begins, many of you will us thinking of ensuring we have managed our three-year CET tally total by the end of the year. I was at meeting at the GOC last week and one of the figures that stood out was that, presently, less than half of all registered practitioners have reached this tally.

When you think about it, this is a good thing it seems to me. Any system that allows someone to meet their tally with the occasional points binge is not one conducive a continuing approach to learning and development. In fact, it might be expected that, if a three-year programme perfectly reflected ongoing points attainment, we would all be short of the total at present and be set for completing our tally by the end of this year. The truth is somewhere in between.