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Healthcare Ethics New Zealand

Face-to-Face Team Training via Zoom · All 18 responsible authorities

Face-to-Face Team Training · New Zealand

Face-to-Face Training & CoursesforHealthcare Organisations Ethics & ProfessionalismProbity & HonestyProfessional BoundariesReflection Workshop

  • Live, facilitated sessions on ethics, professionalism, probity, professional boundaries and reflective practice for your own team
  • Via video link on Zoom, on dates that suit your roster
  • Built around the standards each Council and Board holds your team to
  • Live and facilitated, not a recorded module
  • A certificate issued by Healthcare Ethics Courses for everyone who completes
  • 5 CPD hours
  • Live via Zoom
  • Dates to suit your team
  • Quoted against numbers
Arrange a session See the four courses ↓

At a glance

Format
Live and interactive, via video link on Zoom
Length
5 CPD hours, timings agreed with you, in your own time zone
Certificates
One per person completing, issued by Healthcare Ethics Courses and emailed afterwards
Group
Mixed professions work well — the material is written around the standards every Council and Board publishes under the HPCA Act
Price
Quoted on enquiry

Certificate issued by Healthcare Ethics CoursesRemediation courses for regulatory processes.

The courses

Four courses for team training

Each is a live, facilitated session carrying 5 CPD hours and a certificate issued by Healthcare Ethics Courses. Content lists are indicative and can be weighted towards the standards you want covered.

Course 1 of 4

Probity and Ethics Course

Who it is for

If you are facing a dishonesty or probity allegation — a complaint, an employer investigation, or a Council or Board notification or Professional Conduct Committee — or you need to evidence 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 NZ$600 extra

What the course covers

  • What probity and ethics mean in healthcare practice
  • What the Councils and Boards say about probity, honesty, trust and ethics in their codes and standards
  • 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 health practitioners
  • What to do when a breach of probity and ethics happens
  • Insight, reflect, remediate
  • Formulating a personalised action plan

Date

Sunday 8th November 2026Live via Zoom

Price

NZ$1,200NZ$1,000 inside the Bulk Buy bundle · one-to-one NZ$600 extra
Book 8th November
Course 2 of 4

Ethics and Professionalism Course

Who it is for

If you are facing an allegation about your conduct, attitude or professionalism — a complaint, an employer investigation, or a Council or Board notification or Professional Conduct Committee — or you need to evidence remediation on professional standards.

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 NZ$600 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 and standards on ethics and professionalism — each Council’s and Board’s own, under the Health Practitioners Competence Assurance Act 2003
  • Why ethics and professionalism matter for health practitioners
  • 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

NZ$1,200NZ$1,000 inside the Bulk Buy bundle · one-to-one NZ$600 extra
Book 15th November
Course 3 of 4

Professional Boundaries Course

Who it is for

If you are facing a professional boundaries allegation — a complaint about your relationship with a patient or colleague, an employer investigation, or a Council or Board notification or Professional Conduct Committee — or you need to evidence remediation on boundaries, consent and chaperoning.

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 NZ$600 extra

What the course covers

  • What professional boundaries are
  • What the codes and boundaries standards say — every Council and Board publishes one
  • The factors that contribute to boundary violations
  • Situations where boundaries can become blurred, and the risk that follows
  • Guidance on consent and chaperones
  • Why professional boundaries matter for health practitioners
  • 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

NZ$1,200NZ$1,000 inside the Bulk Buy bundle · one-to-one NZ$600 extra
Book 6th December
Course 4 of 4

Reflection Workshop — Insight, Reflect, Remediate

Who it is for

If you need to build insight, demonstrate reflection and evidence remediation for a complaint, an employer investigation or a Council or Board notification, and want your written reflection to hold up to scrutiny by a Council or Board, a Professional Conduct Committee or the Tribunal.

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 NZ$600 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 health practitioners
  • 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

NZ$1,200NZ$1,000 inside the Bulk Buy bundle · one-to-one NZ$600 extra
Book 13th December

How it works

From enquiry to certificates

There are no published dates on this page because sessions are arranged around your team.

Tell us what you need

Which course, roughly how many people, and the standards or incidents you want it to speak to. One email is usually enough to start.

We agree a date and timings

Sessions are arranged around your roster rather than a fixed calendar, which is why no dates are published here.

We deliver it live

Facilitated via video link on Zoom, interactive throughout, with discussion of real situations rather than a recorded module.

Everyone gets a certificate

A 5 CPD hour certificate for each person who completes, issued by Healthcare Ethics Courses and emailed afterwards.

Who runs them

Who runs the sessions

Dr Mo Mirza, course facilitator at Healthcare Ethics New Zealand

Dr Mo Mirza

Course facilitator

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

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

Dr Shehzad Iqbal, founder and course author at Healthcare Ethics New Zealand

Dr Shehzad Iqbal

Founder, author and course facilitator

Dr Iqbal has designed and delivered ethics, probity and professionalism training for healthcare professionals since 2020, working with practitioners regulated in six countries, online and live. He combines clinical practice with formal postgraduate training in healthcare law and ethics, and writes and reviews every course on this site. He and Dr Mirza facilitate the live sessions.

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 .

In short

What is this training?

Four live, facilitated courses in probity, ethics, professionalism, professional boundaries and reflective practice, delivered to your team as a group via video link on Zoom, with a certificate issued by Healthcare Ethics Courses for every person who completes. Each is a live, facilitated session carrying 5 CPD hours.

They are designed to do two things: help your team review what their own Council or Board expects of them in day-to-day practice, and help the organisation show that its people are held to those standards. The sessions are open to healthcare practitioners whether or not they are registered, so a whole team can sit together. Content is shaped around the standards you want covered, and sessions are arranged around your roster rather than a published calendar — which is why dates and prices are quoted rather than listed.

No New Zealand Council or Board approves courses from any provider, and no course guarantees an outcome in an individual case. What a live session gives you that an e-learning module does not is discussion — staff working through real situations with a facilitator and with each other.

Key terms

What the Councils and Boards mean by insight, reflection and remediation

Four terms recur throughout correspondence from a Council, a Board or a Professional Conduct Committee, and the sessions are built around them. Staff who understand the difference respond better when something goes wrong, which is most of the reason to run this training before it does.

Fitness to practise

Having the skills, knowledge, character and health to practise your profession safely and effectively. A Council or Board acts on a notification or complaint when a concern suggests that one of those may be in question, and the Health Practitioners Competence Assurance Act 2003 gives it the powers to do so. It is a judgement about current and future safety, not only about what happened.

Insight

Understanding what went wrong, why it happened, and the effect it had on patients, colleagues and public confidence in the profession. Insight is weighed at almost every stage, whatever the concern, and it is the element often described as lacking.

Reflection

Setting that understanding down honestly and in your own words, including what you would do differently and what you have already changed. Reflection is the written record of insight, which is why the two are so often confused.

Remediation

The concrete steps taken so that the same thing does not happen again — training, supervision, changes to how you work — together with evidence that they happened. Insight without remediation is an account; remediation without insight is a certificate.

Who we work with

Healthcare organisations of any size

Mixed groups work well: the material is written around the standards the Councils and Boards share, so doctors, nurses, midwives, dentists, pharmacists and allied health practitioners can sit in the same session — and so can colleagues who are not registered with any authority.

  • Health New Zealand — Te Whatu Ora districts and public hospitals
  • Private hospitals and specialist clinics
  • Primary health organisations and general practices
  • Dental practices and dental groups
  • Community pharmacy groups
  • Aged residential care and disability providers
  • Allied health practices
  • Universities, polytechnics and training bodies
  • Locum and recruitment agencies

Questions organisations ask us

Frequently asked questions

What does a course cost for an organisation?

Team training is quoted rather than listed, because the price depends on the course, the number of people and the timings you need. Tell us what you are looking for and we will come back with a figure. For comparison, the same courses run for individuals on published dates at NZ$1,200 a person.

How are the courses delivered?

Live via video link on Zoom, facilitated, and interactive throughout. They are not recorded modules: staff discuss real situations with the facilitator and with each other, which is what makes the reflection work.

How long does a session take?

Each course carries 5 CPD hours. The exact start and finish times are agreed with you, so a session can be arranged around a roster, a study day or a training afternoon.

Do our staff get certificates?

Yes. Everyone who completes receives a 5 CPD hour certificate issued by Healthcare Ethics Courses, on completion and emailed afterwards. Staff can put it straight into a CPD portfolio or a performance-development record.

Which Councils and Boards do the courses cover?

All 18 responsible authorities under the Health Practitioners Competence Assurance Act 2003. The material is written around the standards the Councils and Boards share — honesty, professional boundaries, communication, record keeping, and the duty to reflect and remediate — and around the codes each publishes for its own profession, so a mixed group works well. If your team sits under one authority, we can weight the session to that Council’s or Board’s code. Colleagues who are not registered with any authority can attend alongside them.

Can the content be tailored to us?

Yes. The content lists on this page are indicative. Sessions are shaped around the standards you want covered and, where you want it, around the kinds of incident your organisation has actually seen — discussed in general terms, never as a named case.

Is this only for staff who are already in trouble?

No, and most organisational bookings are not. A common reason to run one of these is preventive: making sure your team understands what their Council or Board expects before anything goes wrong. It is also used after an incident, to help a team work through what happened and what changes.

One of our staff needs this individually. Can they book alone?

Yes. The same four courses run on published dates for individuals, live via Zoom, at NZ$1,200 a course, and any of them can be taken one to one for NZ$600 more. See the face-to-face courses page.

Can we buy the online courses for a team instead?

Yes. Blocks of seats in the online catalogue can be assigned to named people, and a discounted route exists for the members of a body that represents them. See Course Licences & Member Access. An individual can also buy any five or any ten online courses through the Bulk Buy Offer.

Does a Council or Board approve this training?

No New Zealand Council or Board accredits, approves or endorses courses from any provider, and no course guarantees an outcome in an individual case. What the training gives an organisation is a facilitated session on the standards its staff are actually held to, and a dated certificate for each person who completes it.

Other ways to work with us

If a live session is not what you need

This page covers facilitated sessions run for your own team. Two other routes exist, and it is worth being clear about which is which.

Course licences and member access

Blocks of seats in the online catalogue, assigned to named people, or a discounted route for the members of a body that represents them.
Course Licences & Member Access

Online courses

Forty-four self-paced CPD courses written to each Council’s and Board’s standards, bought by the individual.
For individuals

Face-to-face courses

The same four live courses on published dates, via Zoom, NZ$1,200 a course, booked and paid for by the person attending.
For individuals

A live session changes how a group behaves. Licensed online seats suit topping up a team’s CPD, or giving one person something to start on today.

Arrange a session for your team

Tell us which course, roughly how many people and the standards you want covered, and we will come back with dates and a quote.

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