Department of Health guidance on preceptorship positions service users and carers as recipients of high-quality nursing care, but is silent on their role in contributing to this stage of learning and development. However,
Beyond preceptorship, nurses engage in continuing professional development (CPD). When their CPD activities bring them back into contact with a higher educational institution, then these resource pages apply to them again. At other times, when they pursue personal study, professional practice development or non-accredited learning, then the responsibility for co-producing this learning with service users and carers falls to their employer and outside the scope of these guidance materials. However, staff responsible for preceptorship and continuing professional development in their widest sense may wish to take account of the values and innovations demonstrated on these pages.