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No. We are not lawyers and we are not your medical defence organisation or professional indemnity insurer. We cannot tell you how to respond to your Council or Board, what to put in a submission, or what the outcome is likely to be.

For advice on your own matter, speak to your indemnity insurer, your union or professional association, or a lawyer; most of them can also point you to independent support services for practitioners. 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 concerns that come up often for that profession and the courses written to that Council’s or Board’s standards, with a filter 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 a Council or Board, a Professional Conduct Committee or the Tribunal 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.

Usually yes. 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 issued by Healthcare Ethics Courses.

No course from us or from anyone else determines or influences the outcome of a notification. 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 or influences what a Council or Board decides. Anyone who tells you differently is selling you something.

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

Yes. Practices, hospitals, health services, colleges and education teams buy places for several practitioners 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 almost always enough for us to find the purchase and put it right.

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

Yes. Tell us what your finance team needs on the invoice — a purchase order number, 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 and standards the New Zealand Councils and Boards publish under the Health Practitioners Competence Assurance Act 2003 and use New Zealand terminology throughout, so they suit a practitioner registered in New Zealand best. A practitioner whose registration has lapsed, or who is applying to return to the register, can take them too.

Healthcare Ethics New Zealand serves practitioners registered in New Zealand. If you are registered elsewhere, write and say where, and we will point you at the right programme.