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No. We are not solicitors and we are not your indemnifier. We cannot tell you how to respond to your regulator, what to put in a submission, or what the outcome is likely to be.

For advice on your own matter, speak to your indemnifier, your union or professional body, or a solicitor. What we can answer is which courses cover which areas, how access works, and anything about buying.

Start with the page for your profession. Each one lists the 24 courses for that profession, with the ethics and professionalism pair written to its regulator’s code, and a selector that narrows them by the type of concern.

If you have read the page and are still unsure, write to us and say which areas you want covered. You do not need to tell us anything about your own matter for us to answer that.

Yes. We never tell your regulator, a Preliminary Proceedings Committee or an inquiry committee that you have written to us, bought a course or taken one. We keep no register any of them can search and no regulator has an account with us.

How we handle what you send is set out in our privacy policy.

It can be. The courses are self-paced and open the moment payment clears, so there is nothing to schedule and nobody to wait for. Each carries 2 CPD hours on a certificate issued by Healthcare Ethics Courses.

No course from us or from anyone else determines the outcome of a complaint or an inquiry. If a deadline is the reason you are buying, say so in your message and we will tell you plainly whether we think it helps.

No, and we will not tell you otherwise. No provider’s course determines what a regulator or its committees decide. Be wary of anyone who says differently.

What a course can do is help you think through what happened and how you would approach it now, and give you a dated record that you did. What you do with that is yours.

Yes. Hospitals, the HSE and its services, GP practices, pharmacies, dental practices and nursing homes can buy places for several professionals at once. Tell us how many people and which areas you need covered and we will put a quote together.

The arrangements are set out on the Course Licences & Member Access page.

Email us from the address you bought it with and say which course. That is enough for us to find the purchase and put it right.

Access runs twelve months from the date of purchase. Within that period you may return to the course as many times as you like, including after completing it.

Yes. Tell us what your finance team needs on the invoice, such as a purchase order number or a particular billing address, and we will raise it that way.

If your organisation is buying on your behalf, it sees your assignment, completion and date, and nothing else.

They are written to the codes the five Irish regulators publish and use Irish terms throughout, so they suit a professional registered in Ireland best. A professional whose registration has lapsed, who is applying to return to a register, or whose profession is not yet regulated in Ireland can take them too.

Healthcare Ethics Ireland serves professionals in Ireland. If you are registered elsewhere, write and say where, and we will point you to the right site.