Fitness to practise · Ireland

Remediation Courses for Health Professionals in Ireland

A concern with your regulator is stressful. Choose your regulator for a plain-English guide to its process and what decision makers look for, then pick online courses that match the concern, each with reflection prompts and a certificate.

Choose your regulator

Each guide explains that regulator’s own stages, outcomes and guidance on insight, then maps common concerns to the right courses.

Medical Council Doctors Medical Council remediation guide · 43 courses NMBI Nurses and midwives NMBI remediation guide · 41 courses CORU Health and social care professionals CORU remediation guide · 38 courses PSI Pharmacists PSI remediation guide · 41 courses Dental Council Dentists and dental specialists Dental Council remediation guide · 40 courses PHECC EMTs, paramedics and advanced paramedics PHECC remediation guide · 18 courses

What fitness to practise means

Every Irish health regulator can look into complaints about whether a registrant is fit to practise safely and effectively, usually starting with a Preliminary Proceedings Committee and, if needed, a public or private inquiry. A concern might be about conduct, such as honesty or boundaries, about clinical performance, about health, or about a conviction. Each regulator runs its own process, uses its own decision makers and judges the concern against its own standards, which is why there is a separate guide for each one above.

Most cases turn on two questions: has the concern been proved, and what is now needed to protect the public? To answer them, decision makers look back at what happened and forward at the risk of it happening again. That forward look is where your insight and remediation count.

Insight and remediation, in plain terms

Insight

Showing that you understand what went wrong, why it mattered to the people you care for, to colleagues and to public trust, and what your own part in it was.

Remediation

The practical steps you take to put the problem right and stop it recurring, such as targeted learning, supervision, audits or changes to how you work, and the evidence that proves it.

Not every concern can be remedied in the same way. Clinical and record-keeping failings are usually easier to address with learning and supervised practice. Concerns about honesty, sexual misconduct or discrimination go to character and attitude, and decision makers look much harder at genuine insight and sustained change. Your regulator guide explains how your regulator treats each kind of concern.

A five-step remediation plan

Get advice early. Contact your indemnity provider, union or a solicitor as soon as you are told about a concern. They can tell you what to submit and when.
Name the standard. Identify which parts of your regulator’s standards the concern touches. That tells you what your learning needs to cover.
Learn with a purpose. Choose courses that map directly to the concern. Relevance matters far more than volume.
Reflect honestly. After each course, write in your own words what happened, what you learned, how it changes your practice and how you will keep it up.
Show it in practice. Back the learning with evidence from work: audits, supervisor reports, testimonials and examples of the changed behaviour over time.

Important

Use our courses as one part of the evidence you agree with your representative.

Courses most often used in remediation

All 55 courses

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