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Continuing Professional Development Statement All health care professionals, including physiotherapists, are facing increasing demands to deliver competent and best practice strategies to patients. Continuing professional development (CPD) is considered to be one of the key approaches that can help provide solutions to achieving this. CPD has been defined in multiple ways but as related to health care it is "a process through which individuals undertake continuous learning, through a broad range of activities, that maintains, develops and enhances skills and knowledge in order to improve performance in clinical practice". In broader terms it is also linked to facilitating improved patient outcomes and improving the health of a population. Reinforcing the universal use of the concept of continuous improvement for improved outcomes The Australian Physiotherapy Association implements a framework of CPD as part of its membership requirements. Within Platinum Physiotherapy to enhance the practises professional growth and to improve and ensure the delivery of consistent best practice, evidence based services, we wish to cultivate an environment of sustained directed learning and develop a structured organisational CPD programme that will work in partnership with individual learning and support APA requirements. Addressing our practise specific needs involves understanding the patient population served and the predominate presenting conditions, reviewing the requirements of the varying roles within the team and gaining a comprehensive picture of skills, knowledge and behaviours that are required from each team member. Individuals engaging in CPD are not a uniform group they differ in age, clinical and life experiences, level of role within an organisation and what areas they wish to develop in their practice of physiotherapy. To assess the needs of our participants we will utilise data gathering from their annual appraisals and have them complete a skills and learning needs assessment form at the start of each CPD cycle. Information gathered from this will assist and direct development of the CPD programme.