Health and care CPD

The number of actuaries in health and care is still relatively small but growing. It is important that as the profession continues to expand in this area the level of expertise is maintained and where possible improved. It is therefore vital that the actuaries involved should accept that it is their professional responsibility to keep fully up to date with current developments and techniques.

The health and care practice executive committee (PEC) is actively engaged in creating the conditions to encourage the development of formal and informal CPD for actuaries including seminars, the annual conference, responses to consultations. Since 2005 Specialist Technical and Specialist Application Health and Care core reading and examinations have been available.

We hope that members from other professional communities involved in healthcare will find these opportunities of interest, both in understanding what actuarial perspectives have to offer and in serving as a bridgehead for future collaboration between professionals. The PEC has been engaged in meeting members of other professions and bodies who share an interest in healthcare. The PEC believes that actuarial perspectives are relevant to and have much to offer public as well as private providers in healthcare. At the same time the profession has much to learn from these collaborations.