Healthcare Ethics Australia

Live Team Training via Zoom · Ahpra and the 15 National Boards

For organisations · Australia

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

Q: 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.

Q: 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, in your own time zone.

Q: 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.

Q: Which National Boards do the courses cover?

All of them. The material is written around the shared Code of conduct that twelve National Boards use and the codes for doctors, nurses, midwives and psychologists, so a mixed group - doctors, nurses, pharmacists and allied health practitioners in the same session - works well. If your staff sit under one Board, we can weight the session to that Board's code.

Live, facilitated sessions on ethics, probity, professional boundaries and reflective practice for your own staff
Via video link on Zoom, on dates that suit your roster
Built around the codes of conduct your staff are held 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 on enquiry

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 codes the Boards share
Price: Quoted on enquiry

Certificate issued by Healthcare Ethics CoursesRemediation courses for regulatory processes.

The courses

Four courses for staff training

Each carries 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

What it is for

For staff training on probity, integrity, honesty and ethics as set out in Ahpra’s and the National Boards’ codes of conduct.

Format and certificate

Live and interactive, via video link on Zoom
5 CPD hours, timings agreed with you
A certificate issued by Healthcare Ethics Courses for each person who completes
Content weighted towards the standards you want covered

Indicative course content

Probity: honesty and integrity
Ethics and professionalism
Ahpra’s and the National Boards’ guidance on probity and ethics
Why probity and ethics matter
Review of cases involving probity and ethics
What to do if a breach of the expected standards happens
Insight, reflection, remediation
An exercise in insight and reflection on a case or situation
Structured reflection and an action plan for remediation

Dates

Arranged around your teamOn dates that suit your roster, in your own time zone

Price

Quoted on enquiryDepends on the course, the number of people and the timings

Arrange this course

Course 2 of 4

Ethics and Professionalism Course

What it is for

For staff training on ethics and professionalism as set out in Ahpra’s and the National Boards’ codes of conduct.

Format and certificate

Live and interactive, via video link on Zoom
5 CPD hours, timings agreed with you
A certificate issued by Healthcare Ethics Courses for each person who completes
Content weighted towards the standards you want covered

Indicative course content

Ethics in healthcare, and the principles behind it
Review of cases involving ethical dilemmas
Professionalism, and what it is made up of in healthcare
The codes of conduct on ethics and professionalism
Why ethics and professionalism matter
What to do if a breach of the expected standards happens
Insight, reflection, remediation
An exercise in insight and reflection on a case or situation
Structured reflection and an action plan for remediation

Dates

Arranged around your teamOn dates that suit your roster, in your own time zone

Price

Quoted on enquiryDepends on the course, the number of people and the timings

Arrange this course

Course 3 of 4

Professional Boundaries Course

What it is for

For staff training on professional boundaries as set out in Ahpra’s and the National Boards’ codes of conduct.

Format and certificate

Live and interactive, via video link on Zoom
5 CPD hours, timings agreed with you
A certificate issued by Healthcare Ethics Courses for each person who completes
Content weighted towards the standards you want covered

Indicative course content

What professional boundaries are
What the codes of conduct say about professional boundaries
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
The measures and mechanisms that help maintain them
What to do when a breach of professional boundaries happens
Insight, reflection, remediation
An exercise to formulate an action plan

Dates

Arranged around your teamOn dates that suit your roster, in your own time zone

Price

Quoted on enquiryDepends on the course, the number of people and the timings

Arrange this course

Course 4 of 4

Reflection Workshop — Insight, Reflect, Remediate

What it is for

For staff training on reflective practice: building insight, writing reflection that holds up to scrutiny, and evidencing remediation.

Format and certificate

Live and interactive, via video link on Zoom
5 CPD hours, timings agreed with you
A certificate issued by Healthcare Ethics Courses for each person who completes
Content weighted towards the standards you want covered

Indicative course content

Reflection and reflective practice, and why reflection helps
What to reflect on
How reflection helps with insight and remediation
How to write an effective reflection
Gibbs’ reflective cycle, and writing reflection to it
Collective reflection
A SMART action plan to remediate

Dates

Arranged around your teamOn dates that suit your roster, in your own time zone

Price

Quoted on enquiryDepends on the course, the number of people and the timings

Arrange this course

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, in your own time zone, 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

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, 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.

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 11 September 2026.

In short

What is this training?

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

They are designed to do two things: help staff review what Ahpra and their own National Board expect of them in day-to-day practice, and help the organisation show that its people are held to those standards. 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 National 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 Ahpra and the National Boards mean by insight, reflection and remediation

Four terms recur throughout regulatory correspondence, 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 National Board acts on a notification when a concern suggests that one of those may be in question. 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 codes of conduct the National Boards share, so doctors, nurses, pharmacists and allied health practitioners can sit in the same session.

Public hospitals and local health districts
Private hospitals and day surgeries
General practices and primary health networks
Dental practices
Community pharmacy groups
Aged care and disability providers
Allied health practices
Universities and training bodies

Questions organisations ask us

Frequently asked questions

What does a course cost for an organisation?

Group 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.

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, in your own time zone.

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 National Boards do the courses cover?

All of them. The material is written around the shared Code of conduct that twelve National Boards use and the codes for doctors, nurses, midwives and psychologists, so a mixed group — doctors, nurses, pharmacists and allied health practitioners in the same session — works well. If your staff sit under one Board, we can weight the session to that Board’s code.

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 staff understand what Ahpra and their National Board expect 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, and any of them can be taken one to one. 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 for organisations.

Does Ahpra or a National Board approve this training?

No National 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 staff. 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.
For organisations

Online courses

Forty-two self-paced CPD courses written to Ahpra’s and the National Boards’ codes, bought by the individual.
For individuals

Face-to-face courses

The same four live courses on published dates, via Zoom, 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.

Get in touch Licences for your people