Remediation courses for All Other Healthcare Professionals (CORU and not yet regulated) facing a CORU fitness to practise complaint, Professional Conduct Committee inquiry or allegation of professional misconduct

Begin with the Core Set above. Those nine cover both halves of a response: the standards you are judged against — Ethics for Healthcare Professionals and Professionalism for Healthcare Professionals, written to the Codes of Professional Conduct and Ethics — and the four things a response has to show, set out under What CORU is actually assessing. Then add the courses matching the concern in your letter. Each course is €100 (€70 with Bulk Buy 10).

The Council decides the sanction, and the High Court confirms it. Before that, the Preliminary Proceedings Committee screens the complaint and decides whether it goes forward, and a Committee of Inquiry — the Professional Conduct Committee for conduct or competence, the Health Committee for health — holds the inquiry and reports to the Council. Your letter names the committee it comes from, which tells you your stage.

Yes. CORU says the first three psychologist registers are now expected to open in 2027, and the registers for counsellors and psychotherapists are not yet open, so there is no CORU fitness to practise process for you today; ask CORU about the timetable for your register. The questions a complaint raises are the same wherever it is heard — what happened, what you understood, what has changed — and the Core Set answers them. This page also serves any practitioner whose regulator is not one of the other four.

A certificate, yes: Healthcare Ethics Courses issues a dated certificate for every course, recording 2 CPD hours, the course title and the date of completion. On CPD, CORU requires 30 CPD credits in every 12-month period, counts one hour of new or enhanced learning as one credit, and audits records; it says the key element is reflecting on how the activity will change your practice, so keep the certificate with your own written reflection. Whether any activity counts towards your 30 credits is for CORU to say — ask CORU.

Access runs for twelve months from the date of purchase. You start immediately and work at your own pace on any device, with no schedule to keep. Finishing a course does not end your access: after you have downloaded your certificate you can return to the material as many times as you like for the rest of the twelve months, at no further cost.

No. The certificate records the date you completed the course, and that date does not change. Revisiting the material inside your twelve months does not produce a newly dated certificate. If you need a certificate carrying a later date — because CORU, a Committee of Inquiry or an employer has asked for recent evidence — you buy the course again. Within twelve months of your original purchase a repeat is half price; after twelve months it is the full €100.

No. No course, from us or anyone else, determines the outcome of a complaint to CORU, a Professional Conduct Committee or Health Committee inquiry, or the Council's decision on sanction; treat any provider suggesting otherwise with caution. What a course can do is help you build the insight and reflection your response needs, and give you a dated, verifiable certificate to evidence it. How much weight that carries depends on the facts of your own case.

By showing four things in order: that you understand what went wrong, accept responsibility, see the effect it had, and can show meaningful change, as set out under What CORU is actually assessing. Put them in your own written reflection and attach dated evidence of the change, such as a course certificate. The Insight, Reflection and Remediation courses address each of the four.

CORU describes undertakings as agreed commitments by the registrant to address identified concerns; in 2022 to 2024 they were the largest Committee of Inquiry outcome, 13 against 7 censures. Our Ethics, Professionalism, Professional Boundaries and Ethical Boundaries courses are written to supply the content of such a commitment, and each issues a dated certificate. Whether a particular course satisfies a particular undertaking or condition is for CORU to say: read the wording with your indemnifier, your union or professional body, or a solicitor, and ask CORU before you enrol.

Yes. There is no registration check and no requirement to hold current registration. The courses are taken by registrants who are suspended, who have conditions attached to their registration, who are subject to an undertaking, or who are applying for restoration, as well as by those with a live complaint. If a condition or an undertaking names a specific subject, check its wording with your indemnifier, your union or professional body, or a solicitor before you choose.

Your registration board's Code of Professional Conduct and Ethics, which every CORU registrant must abide by. Professional boundaries were a theme in 7% of the cases CORU concluded in 2022 to 2024. Our Professional Boundaries and Ethical Boundaries courses cover the boundary with a patient, a service user or a colleague — a dual relationship, contact outside the professional relationship, gifts and conduct online — and what a response to a boundaries concern needs to show. Take advice before responding, and before contacting the person concerned.

It is a health process rather than a conduct one. Relevant medical disability is a ground of complaint in section 52(1) of the Act, and a complaint on that ground goes to the Health Committee, whose hearings CORU says are normally held in private. Your response can still show how the condition affected your practice and what you have put in place.

Yes. Courses are taken privately online at your own pace. We never share participant details with CORU, a registration board, a Committee of Inquiry, an employer, a union or an indemnifier unless you choose to do so yourself. Registrants complete a course before deciding whether to include it in a response to the PPC, in an undertaking, or in a submission to the Committee of Inquiry at all. The certificate is issued to you alone.