Ethics & Professionalism Courses for Irish Healthcare Professionals
Aligned with Medical Council, NMBI, Dental Council, and PSI standards — for CPD, remediation, or fitness to practise support.
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Ireland regulates healthcare through independent statutory bodies — the Medical Council for doctors (Medical Practitioners Act 2007), NMBI for nurses and midwives (Nurses and Midwives Act 2011), the Dental Council for dentists (Dentists Act 1985), PSI for pharmacists (Pharmacy Act 2007), and CORU for health and social care professionals. Each maintains registers, sets standards, and manages fitness to practise processes.
Courses aligned with your Regulatory Bodies' Standards & Guidelines
Medical Council of Ireland
Courses for DoctorsRegulates medical doctors under the Medical Practitioners Act 2007. Maintains the register of practitioners, sets education standards, oversees professional competence, and conducts fitness to practise inquiries.
Nursing & Midwifery Board of Ireland (NMBI)
Courses for Nurses & MidwivesThe independent statutory organisation regulating nursing and midwifery under the Nurses and Midwives Act 2011. Sets standards for education, registration, and professional conduct.
Dental Council of Ireland
Courses for Dentists & Dental Care ProfessionalsEstablished under the Dentists Act 1985, regulates dentists, dental specialists, dental hygienists, dental nurses, and clinical dental technicians. Investigates complaints.
Pharmaceutical Society of Ireland (PSI)
Courses for PharmacistsEstablished under the Pharmacy Act 2007. Regulates pharmacists and pharmacies. Handles complaints through Professional Conduct Committee and Health Committee.
CORU — Health & Social Care Council
Courses for Allied Health ProfessionalsRegulates over 20,000 health and social care professionals across 12 professions including physiotherapists, occupational therapists, social workers, dietitians, and radiographers.
Built for Ireland healthcare professionals
Regulator-Aligned
Courses follow the standards and guidance of the Medical Council, NMBI, Dental Council, PSI, and CORU.
Fitness to Practise Support
Designed for professionals facing complaints, Preliminary Proceedings Committee referrals, or fitness to practise inquiries.
2 CPD Hours Per Course
Each course contributes towards your annual professional competence scheme requirements as set by your regulator.
Irish Legislative Context
Content reflects Irish legislation, regulatory frameworks, and the specific obligations of Irish healthcare professionals.
Why ethics & professionalism training matters for Irish healthcare professionals
Across every regulated profession in Ireland, the concerns that most often put a practitioner's registration at risk are not clinical — they are questions of conduct, boundaries, consent, honesty and communication. Understanding what your regulator expects, and being able to evidence it, is now a core part of safe practice and CPD.
Ethics — not just clinical skill — sustains public trust
The Medical Council, NMBI, Dental Council, PSI and CORU all place ethics and professionalism at the heart of their codes. A practitioner can be clinically excellent and still face a fitness-to-practise complaint over a boundary lapse, a record-keeping failure or a probity concern. Structured ethics education helps you recognise and manage these risks before they arise.
Where complaints actually come from
Whether you are a doctor, a nurse or midwife, a dentist or a pharmacist, most complaints trace back to a small set of recurring themes: professional boundaries, informed consent, confidentiality and data protection under GDPR and the Data Protection Act 2018, documentation and record-keeping, communication breakdowns, and probity. Our courses address each of these directly, mapped to your regulator’s standards.
Aligned with your regulator’s code
Each Irish regulator publishes the standard you are held to — 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 for Pharmacists, and CORU’s Code of Professional Conduct and Ethics. Whichever body registers you — including the allied health and social care professionals regulated by CORU across its registration boards — the courses are written to reflect the specific obligations that apply to you.
Documented evidence when it matters most
If you receive a complaint, a Preliminary Proceedings Committee referral or a fitness-to-practise inquiry, your regulator will look for genuine insight, meaningful remediation, and credible assurance that the issue will not recur. Completing focused ethics and professionalism courses gives you dated, documented evidence of reflection — something indemnity providers and advisers often recommend demonstrating early, before a committee reaches its decision.
Self-paced CPD that fits clinical life
Every course provides two hours of CPD and an instant certificate, and counts towards the professional competence and CPD requirements set by your regulator. At €99 per course — with a discount when you buy several — you can build a targeted ethics record around routine CPD, remediation, or a specific concern, entirely at your own pace.
Frequently asked questions
Our courses align with the professional conduct and ethics standards set by the Medical Council. Please confirm directly how they contribute to your professional competence scheme.
Yes. Our courses on insight, remediation, and professional ethics demonstrate your commitment to strengthening your practice — an important element in NMBI fitness to practise processes.
Our courses provide 2 CPD hours each and align with professional standards. Please confirm with the Dental Council or PSI how they count towards your specific CPD requirements.
Each course is €99. We offer a 10% discount when you purchase 3 or more courses — use coupon code MLT10 at checkout.
Yes, you need 80% on the post-course assessment. You can attempt it as many times as needed — the number of attempts is not shown on your certificate.
Our courses are developed by Healthcare Ethics Courses, founded by Dr Shehzad Iqbal (MRCS, MRCGP), who also holds a postgraduate qualification in Healthcare Law and Ethics from the University of Dundee. Content is written and reviewed by clinicians and advisers with direct experience of professional ethics, regulation and fitness-to-practise matters.
Yes. They are created by healthcare professionals and advisers with hands-on experience of clinical practice, professional standards and fitness-to-practise processes, so the material reflects how these issues actually arise in day-to-day practice in Ireland.
Our content is mapped to the published standards of the relevant Irish regulators — the Medical Council, NMBI, Dental Council, PSI and CORU — and to recurring themes in real fitness-to-practise cases. We are transparent that we are an independent provider, not a regulator or a training body, and we keep our materials current as standards change.
We review our courses regularly and update them to reflect changes in regulatory codes, legislation and best practice, including guidance from the Medical Council, NMBI, Dental Council, PSI and CORU, as well as GDPR and the Data Protection Act 2018.
Each course takes around two hours of CPD and is fully self-paced — you can start, pause and finish whenever suits you, on a computer, tablet or phone — and you receive an instant certificate of completion.
Yes. You can buy individual courses at €99 each, and bulk-buy bundles are available if you want broader coverage or you are purchasing for a team or department.