The following claims published on the CPD Assessed website have been assessed against verifiable primary sources and are recorded here as unsubstantiated or materially misleading.
Claim 1 — "Independent" accreditation
The CPD Assessed website describes its service as "independent CPD assessment" and states that the Accreditation Board keeps "everything independent and ensuring there are no conflicts of interests." These claims are directly contradicted by the structural facts of the organisation: CPD Assessed Limited was established by Healthcare Trainers Network, is owned and operated on behalf of Healthcare Trainers Network Ltd (as stated in its own Terms and Conditions), shares a common director with Healthcare Trainers Network Ltd (confirmed at Companies House), and provides accreditation exclusively to Healthcare Trainers Network subscribers. The claim of independence cannot be substantiated in the context of this structural arrangement.
Claim 2 — "Thousands of Professional Membership Organisations and Government Regulators for various business sectors Worldwide require individuals to undertake CPD"
This claim appears repeatedly across multiple pages of the website as a prominent marketing statement. Whilst it is broadly accurate that many professional bodies encourage or require CPD, the claim is presented without qualification in a way that implies CPD Assessed accreditation is recognised by or satisfies the requirements of thousands of such bodies and government regulators worldwide. No evidence is provided to support any such recognition, and no specific bodies or regulators are named. The presentation of this claim alongside CPD Assessed's own accreditation service could lead a consumer to infer a level of external recognition that has not been evidenced.
Claim 3 — "Rigorous" assessment
The website describes the accreditation service as providing "rigorous third-party assessment." No published assessment criteria, scoring framework, or quality threshold has been identified against which the rigour of the assessment could be independently evaluated. The use of the word "rigorous" as a marketing descriptor without supporting evidence or a published framework is unsubstantiated.
Claim 4 — "Third-party" assessment
The website describes CPD Assessed as providing "rigorous third-party assessment." Given that the Terms and Conditions document identifies Healthcare Trainers Network Ltd as the owner of the CPD Assessed website, that both entities share a common director, and that the service is available exclusively to HTN subscribers, characterising CPD Assessed as a "third party" to the training providers it accredits is materially misleading.
Claim 5 — "Prior to those two years acting as the Responsible Officer for a UK Accreditation Body" (Accreditation Board page, regarding Daisy Bergonia)
The Accreditation Board page states that the Head of Accreditation Board "prior to those two years acting as the Responsible Officer for a UK Accreditation Body." No accreditation body, organisation name, or verifiable reference is provided. This claim cannot be independently verified as presented.
Sources:
https://cpdassessed.com/ — accessed 12 May 2025
https://cpdassessed.com/team — accessed 12 May 2025
https://cpdassessed.com/get-approved — accessed 12 May 2025
https://cpdassessed.com/about — accessed 12 May 2025
Terms & Conditions V1.0:
https://irp.cdn-website.com/bb260cb7/files/uploaded/Terms_-_Conditions_V1.0.pdf — accessed 12 May 2025
Companies House — David Inglis appointments:
https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/officers/VEwz_8lMaOWxjoQHOeG-PweRS_Q/appointments — accessed 12 May 2025
