Healthcare Ethics Ireland

Face-to-Face Courses via Zoom · Medical Council · NMBI · Dental Council · PSI · CORU

Face-to-face courses · Ireland

Face-to-Face Courses Ethics & ProfessionalismProbity & HonestyProfessional BoundariesReflection Workshop

Q: Are these courses actually face-to-face?

They are run live, via video link on Zoom. Face-to-face here means live and interactive with a facilitator and other participants, rather than a self-paced recording. You see and speak to the facilitator and the other participants on the video call. If you want a private session, a one-to-one version of any of the four courses is available for €300 on top of the course price.

Q: How long is the course, and what is the format?

A live session via Zoom, on a set date. Each course carries 5 CPD hours, and the certificate is issued by Healthcare Ethics Courses on completion. Joining details are sent when you book.

Q: Which of the four courses should I take?

Match the course to the complaint. Probity and Ethics is for honesty and dishonesty allegations. Ethics and Professionalism is for conduct, attitude and professionalism concerns. Professional Boundaries is for a boundaries breach with a patient or a colleague, and for consent and chaperone issues. The Reflection Workshop is for building insight and writing reflection that can be read closely by a committee. If your letter names more than one concern, contact us and we will help you choose.

Q: What certificate do I get, and when?

A certificate issued by Healthcare Ethics Courses, on completion, emailed to you after the course. It records the course title, the 5 CPD hours, your name and the date. You can include it in a remediation plan or a written response to your regulator, alongside your own reflection.

Q: What does a course cost?

€600 for a single live course. With 10 or more online courses in your basket it comes down to €550: €700 for the ten online courses plus €550 for the live course, €1,250 in total. A one-to-one session is €300 extra either way.

For healthcare professionals in Ireland facing a complaint, an investigation or a fitness to practise inquiry — registered or not
A live, facilitated course via video link on Zoom — with a facilitator, not a recording
Interactive, with discussion throughout
Structured work on your own case, and an action plan you leave with
Certificate issued by Healthcare Ethics Courses on completion

5 CPD hours
€600 per course
Live via Zoom
One-to-one available
€550 with 10 or more online courses

See the four courses ↓ €600, or €550 with 10 online courses

At a glance

Who it is for: Any healthcare professional in Ireland facing a complaint, a Preliminary Proceedings Committee or a fitness to practise inquiry — registered or not
Regulators covered: The Medical Council, the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland (NMBI), the Dental Council, the Pharmaceutical Society of Ireland (PSI) and CORU
The four courses: Probity and Ethics · Ethics and Professionalism · Professional Boundaries · the Reflection Workshop
Format: Live and interactive via video link on Zoom, on set dates; 5 CPD hours; one-to-one available
Certificate: Certificate issued by Healthcare Ethics Courses, emailed after the course
Price: €600 per course · €550 with 10 or more online courses · one-to-one €300 extra

Certificate issued by Healthcare Ethics CoursesRemediation courses for regulatory processes.

The courses

Four courses

Match the course to the complaint you are facing. Every course is €600, carries 5 CPD hours, and comes with a certificate issued by Healthcare Ethics Courses on completion.

Course 1 of 4

Probity and Ethics Course

Who it is for

If you are facing a complaint about your honesty or probity — to your regulator, from your employer, before a Preliminary Proceedings Committee or at a fitness to practise inquiry — or you need to show remediation on honesty and integrity.

Format and certificate

Live and interactive, via video link on Zoom
5 CPD hours
Certificate issued by Healthcare Ethics Courses on completion
One-to-one available for €300 extra

What the course covers

What probity and ethics mean in healthcare practice
What Ireland’s regulators say about probity, honesty and trust in their codes: the Medical Council’s Guide to Professional Conduct and Ethics, the NMBI Code of Professional Conduct and Ethics, the Dental Council’s Code of Practice, the PSI Code of Conduct and the CORU codes
The consequences of a breach of probity, honesty and ethics
Case examples where a breach of probity happened, and reflection on them
Examples of ethical dilemmas and how to manage them
Why probity and ethics matter for healthcare professionals
What to do when a breach of probity and ethics happens
Insight, reflect, remediate
Formulating a personalised action plan

Date

Sunday 1st November 2026Live via Zoom

Price

€600€550 with 10 or more online courses · one-to-one €300 extra

Book 1st November

Course 2 of 4

Ethics and Professionalism Course

Who it is for

If you are facing a complaint about your conduct, attitude or professionalism — to your regulator, from your employer, before a Preliminary Proceedings Committee or at a fitness to practise inquiry — or you need to show remediation against your regulator’s code.

Format and certificate

Live and interactive, via video link on Zoom
5 CPD hours
Certificate issued by Healthcare Ethics Courses on completion
One-to-one available for €300 extra

What the course covers

Ethics in healthcare, and the principles behind it
Review of cases involving ethical dilemmas
Professionalism, and what it is made up of
The codes on ethics and professionalism: the code your own regulator publishes, whether the Medical Council, NMBI, the Dental Council, the PSI or your CORU registration board
Why ethics and professionalism matter for healthcare professionals
What to do if a breach of the expected standards happens: insight, reflection, remediation
An exercise in insight and reflection on your own case or situation
Structured reflection and an action plan for remediation

Date

Sunday 15th November 2026Live via Zoom

Price

€600€550 with 10 or more online courses · one-to-one €300 extra

Book 15th November

Course 3 of 4

Professional Boundaries Course

Who it is for

If you are facing a professional boundaries complaint — about your relationship with a patient or a colleague, a dual relationship, consent or chaperoning, whether raised by your employer, a Preliminary Proceedings Committee or at a fitness to practise inquiry — or you need to show remediation on boundaries.

Format and certificate

Live and interactive, via video link on Zoom
5 CPD hours
Certificate issued by Healthcare Ethics Courses on completion
One-to-one available for €300 extra

What the course covers

What professional boundaries are, with a patient or a colleague
What your regulator’s code says about boundaries
The factors that contribute to boundary violations
Situations where boundaries can become unclear, including dual relationships, and the risk that follows
Guidance on consent and chaperones
Why professional boundaries matter for healthcare professionals
The measures and mechanisms that help maintain them
What to do when a breach of professional boundaries happens
Insight, reflect, remediate
An exercise to formulate a personalised action plan

Date

Sunday 6th December 2026Live via Zoom

Price

€600€550 with 10 or more online courses · one-to-one €300 extra

Book 6th December

Course 4 of 4

Reflection Workshop — Insight, Reflect, Remediate

Who it is for

If you need to build insight, write reflection and show remediation for a complaint, an investigation or a fitness to practise inquiry, and want your written reflection to be read closely by a Preliminary Proceedings Committee, a Fitness to Practise Committee or a Professional Conduct Committee.

Format and certificate

Live and interactive, via video link on Zoom
5 CPD hours
Certificate issued by Healthcare Ethics Courses on completion
One-to-one available for €300 extra

What the course covers

Reflection and reflective practice, and why reflection helps
What to reflect on
How reflection helps with insight and remediation
Why reflection matters for healthcare professionals
How to write an effective reflection
Reflections and discussions that build insight into your own situation or case
Discussion that helps you remediate, and helps you write your reflective pieces afterwards
Gibbs’ reflective cycle, and writing reflection to it
Collective reflection
A SMART action plan to remediate

Date

Sunday 13th December 2026Live via Zoom

Price

€600€550 with 10 or more online courses · one-to-one €300 extra

Book 13th December

Two ways to buy

Buy a course on its own, or with 10 or more online courses

With 10 or more online courses in your basket, a live course comes down from €600 to €550: the lower price is applied in the basket. It is the cheaper route if you also want online courses.

One live course

€600

Per course, per person

A live, facilitated session via video link on Zoom
5 CPD hours, certificate issued by Healthcare Ethics Courses
Certificate emailed after the course
One-to-one available for €300 extra

See the courses and book

Cancel seven days or more before the date for a full refund; within seven days there is no refund. Bookings are subject to our terms and conditions.

One live course plus ten online courses

€1,250

One face-to-face course at €550, with ten online courses at €700

One of the four live courses on this page, on a set date
Ten or more of the 32 online courses, chosen on your regulator’s Bulk Buy page
Eleven certificates in total, issued by Healthcare Ethics Courses
Saves €50 against buying the live course on its own
One-to-one still available for €300 extra

View the Bulk Buy Offer

How it works

What the course looks like

The same shape for all four courses.

Start

Joining by video link on Zoom. Live and interactive throughout, with a facilitator.

A small group

Numbers are kept small so everyone takes part — or book the course one to one.

Interactive throughout

Discussion with the facilitator and other participants, work on your own case, reflective discussion and an action plan.

Finish

A live session carrying 5 CPD hours, with a certificate issued by Healthcare Ethics Courses on completion.

Who runs them

Who runs the sessions

Dr Mo Mirza

Course facilitator, Healthcare Ethics Ireland

Dr Mo Mirza is a medically trained doctor from University College London and currently a UCL postgraduate researcher, with over 25 years’ experience in healthcare, facilitation and student support. Drawing on clinical practice, counselling studies and small-group work, he facilitates reflective sessions on probity and ethics, professional boundaries and professional behaviour, using realistic scenarios, guided discussion and structured reflection.

Medicine, University College London · UCL postgraduate researcher · Counselling studies · Small-group facilitation

Dr Shehzad Iqbal

Founder and course facilitator, Healthcare Ethics Ireland

Every course is written by Dr Iqbal, who combines clinical practice with a formal postgraduate qualification in healthcare law and ethics. He and Dr Mirza facilitate the live sessions. He founded Probity & Ethics in the United Kingdom in 2020 and Healthcare Ethics Courses, which issues the certificates, in 2025. More about us.

MBBS · MRCS · MRCGP · Postgraduate Certificate in Healthcare Law and Ethics, University of Dundee

Course content written and last reviewed by Dr Shehzad Iqbal. Last reviewed 15 October 2026.

In short

What are the face-to-face courses?

They are four live, facilitated remediation courses — Probity and Ethics, Ethics and Professionalism, Professional Boundaries and a Reflection Workshop — run via video link on Zoom, with a certificate issued by Healthcare Ethics Courses on completion. Each carries 5 CPD hours and costs €600, or €550 with 10 or more online courses.

They are run virtually: face-to-face here means live and interactive with a facilitator and other participants, not a self-paced recording. Each runs live on a set date. Any of the four can be run one to one for €300 more.

They are for healthcare professionals facing a complaint, an investigation or a fitness to practise inquiry before the Medical Council, NMBI, the Dental Council, the Pharmaceutical Society of Ireland or CORU. No course decides a complaint. What a live session gives you is a facilitator, other professionals in the same position, and structured work on your own case: the insight and remedial action that the sanctions guidance of the Medical Council and of NMBI both refer to.

Key terms

What Ireland’s regulators mean by insight, reflection and remediation

Four terms run through a complaint from the first letter to an inquiry, and the sessions are built around them. They are not interchangeable, and knowing which one a letter is asking for changes how you respond.

Fitness to practise complaint and inquiry

The term Ireland’s five regulators use for their complaints processes. At the Medical Council, NMBI, the PSI and CORU a Preliminary Proceedings Committee decides whether a complaint goes further (at the Medical Council, after the chief executive officer’s screening and an Authorised Officer’s investigation), and may refer it on for an inquiry: before a Fitness to Practise Committee at the Medical Council and NMBI, or a Professional Conduct Committee at the PSI and CORU. At the Dental Council the Fitness to Practise Committee itself decides whether to hold an inquiry.

Insight

Understanding what went wrong, why it happened, and the effect it had on patients, colleagues and public confidence. NMBI’s Guidance on Sanctions says “Mere acknowledgement of the findings does not necessarily demonstrate insight.”

Reflection

Setting that understanding down honestly and in your own words, including what you would do differently and what you have already changed. CORU’s fitness to practise trends report says “Every complaint represents an opportunity for learning and reflection”.

Remediation

The concrete steps taken so that the same thing does not happen again — supervision, changes to how you work, focused courses — together with evidence that they happened. The Medical Council’s Sanctions Guidance says a doctor “may present evidence to the Council about how they have addressed issues or concerns”. Insight without remediation shows understanding but no change; remediation without insight shows change without an understanding of why it was needed.

The committees: Medical Council, NMBI, Dentists Act 1985, s.38, PSI and its committees, CORU.

Who they are for

Every healthcare professional in Ireland, whatever your regulator

The courses are for professionals facing a complaint, an investigation or a fitness to practise inquiry, and for anyone with a concern raised at work who needs to show remediation.

Doctors
Nurses
Midwives
Dentists
Dental nurses
Dental hygienists
Orthodontic therapists
Clinical dental technicians
Pharmacists
Physiotherapists
Occupational therapists
Speech and language therapists
Social workers
Social care workers
Radiographers
Radiation therapists
Medical scientists
Dietitians
Podiatrists
Optometrists
Dispensing opticians
Psychologists
Counsellors and psychotherapists

Registered with the Medical Council, NMBI, the Dental Council, the Pharmaceutical Society of Ireland or CORU — and open to professionals whose registration has lapsed, and to those not yet regulated: psychologists, whose first CORU registers are expected to open in 2027, and counsellors and psychotherapists, whose CORU registers are not yet open.

Questions professionals ask us

Frequently asked questions

Are these courses actually face-to-face?

They are run live, via video link on Zoom. Face-to-face here means live and interactive with a facilitator and other participants, rather than a self-paced recording. You see and speak to the facilitator and the other participants on the video call. If you want a private session, a one-to-one version of any of the four courses is available for €300 on top of the course price.

How long is the course, and what is the format?

A live session via Zoom, on a set date. Each course carries 5 CPD hours, and the certificate is issued by Healthcare Ethics Courses on completion. Joining details are sent when you book.

Which of the four courses should I take?

Match the course to the complaint. Probity and Ethics is for honesty and dishonesty allegations. Ethics and Professionalism is for conduct, attitude and professionalism concerns. Professional Boundaries is for a boundaries breach with a patient or a colleague, and for consent and chaperone issues. The Reflection Workshop is for building insight and writing reflection that can be read closely by a committee. If your letter names more than one concern, contact us and we will help you choose.

Do I have to be facing a complaint to attend?

No. The courses are built for healthcare professionals facing a complaint, an investigation or a fitness to practise inquiry, but a concern raised by your employer, conditions attached to your registration, or an undertaking you have given are all reasons to come. You can attend whether or not you are currently registered.

What certificate do I get, and when?

A certificate issued by Healthcare Ethics Courses, on completion, emailed to you after the course. It records the course title, the 5 CPD hours, your name and the date. You can include it in a remediation plan or a written response to your regulator, alongside your own reflection.

Will a course resolve my complaint?

No course decides a complaint or an inquiry, and we do not promise any outcome. What a live course gives you is a dated certificate and structured work on insight, reflection and remediation that you can show. The Medical Council’s Sanctions Guidance says a doctor may present evidence of how they have addressed the concerns. Speak to your indemnifier, your union or professional body, or a solicitor before you send anything.

The next date is too late for my deadline. Can you run one sooner?

Contact us and we will try to arrange an earlier date. A one-to-one session is arranged around your diary, so it can be the quicker route. If you need more time to reply to your regulator, ask it: NMBI, for example, says you may request an extension of time to respond to a complaint.

What is the one-to-one option?

Any of the four courses can be run as a private one-to-one session for €300 extra, whether the course is bought on its own or with 10 or more online courses. It covers the same material, and the date is arranged around you.

What does a course cost?

€600 for a single live course. With 10 or more online courses in your basket it comes down to €550: €700 for the ten online courses plus €550 for the live course, €1,250 in total. A one-to-one session is €300 extra either way.

Should I take a live course or the online ones?

They do different jobs. The online courses let you cover each specific concern in a complaint and build a set of certificates at your own pace. A live session gives you a facilitator, discussion with other professionals in the same position, and structured exercises on your own case. You can do both: the live session for insight and reflection, the online courses for the specific concerns.

What if I cannot attend on the date I booked?

Tell us as soon as you know. Cancel seven days or more before the course date and the fee is refunded in full. Within seven days of the date, or if you do not attend, no refund is made. If we have to cancel or move a date, you choose between a full refund and a place on the next date. The full position is in our terms and conditions.

Who should I speak to before I reply to my regulator?

Your indemnifier, your union or professional body, or a solicitor, before you put anything in writing. For doctors, Medical Protection (MPS) offers advice and representation for Medical Council fitness to practise proceedings, and says these are not covered by the Clinical Indemnity Scheme; the MDU says it can support issues the Scheme does not cover. This is remediation, not legal advice.

Sources for the answers above: Medical Council Sanctions Guidance · NMBI, Responding to a Complaint · Medical Protection, Ireland · MDU, Ireland.

The other half of the catalogue

Online courses, by regulator

Self-paced online courses at €100 each (€70 with Bulk Buy 10), 2 CPD hours, with a page written to each regulator’s code. A live session suits insight and reflection; the online courses let you cover each specific concern raised.

Online courses bought together cost less: five are €400 and ten are €700 — see the Bulk Buy Offer. Booking for a team rather than yourself? We run the same four courses live for healthcare organisations. New to this? Take the free fitness to practise course.

Book a course, or ask about a date

Every course is €600 and carries 5 CPD hours, with a certificate issued by Healthcare Ethics Courses. If the next date does not work for you, we will try to arrange an earlier one.

See the courses and book — €600 Ten online courses and a live course — €1,250 Ask about a date