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Dr Shehzad Iqbal, Founder and Course Author, Probity & Ethics

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In short

Dr Shehzad Iqbal is the founder, course author and facilitator of Probity & Ethics, and writes and reviews every CPD course and guide on this site. He is a practising GP with MBBS, MRCS, MRCGP and a Postgraduate Certificate in Healthcare Law and Ethics (University of Dundee). He wrote all 42 Probity & Ethics online CPD courses, offered since July 2020, each CPD certified and accredited by The CPD Certification Service (provider no. 13197), and the four live courses by video link. The CPD courses are for healthcare professionals facing a complaint, an investigation or a fitness to practise process with any of the nine UK regulators, and for CPD.

About Dr Iqbal

Dr Shehzad Iqbal, founder and course author, Probity & Ethics

Dr Shehzad Iqbal is a general practitioner in NHS practice and the founder of Probity & Ethics. He qualified MBBS in 1997 (Nishtar Medical College), passed MRCS in 2007 (Royal College of Surgeons of England) and MRCGP in 2012, and holds a Postgraduate Certificate in Healthcare Law and Ethics (University of Dundee, 2024) and a Diploma in Teaching Skills for Educators (2024). He holds full GMC registration with a licence to practise.

Since 2020 he has written and delivered ethics, probity and professionalism remediation courses for UK healthcare professionals, online and face to face, for registrants of all nine UK regulators: the GMC, NMC, GDC, GPhC, HCPC, GOC, GCC, GOsC and Social Work England. Probity & Ethics has been a registered CPD provider with The CPD Certification Service since March 2020. He is also the founder and course author of Healthcare Ethics Australia, Healthcare Ethics New Zealand and Healthcare Ethics Ireland.

What he writes and reviews

42 online CPD courses

Self-paced remediation CPD courses in ethics, professionalism, professional boundaries, probity, candour, record keeping, communication, insight, reflection and remediation, written for a complaint, an investigation or a hearing and for CPD. Each is CPD certified and accredited by The CPD Certification Service. See the courses.

The guides

The guides on complaints, investigations, hearings and each regulator’s process, on CPD, revalidation and appraisal, and on the subjects the courses cover. Read the guides or start at Topics.

Four live courses by video link

Probity and Ethics, Ethics and Professionalism, Professional Boundaries, and the Reflection Workshop: facilitated live, in a group or one to one, CPD certified and accredited by The CPD Certification Service under the same provider number, 13197.

Free tools and a free call

The fitness to practise tools, which run in your browser, and a free 15-minute call to talk through what has been raised.

CPD courses written by Dr Shehzad Iqbal for Probity & Ethics

All 42 online CPD courses on this site, with the month each went on sale, which is also the month it was CPD certified and accredited by The CPD Certification Service. Each course is 2 CPD hours (the three modules 1.5) and ends with a dated certificate.

Ethics by profession (10)

Professionalism by profession (9)

Courses for all healthcare professionals (23)

Live courses by video link (4)

  • Probity and Ethics, Probity & Ethics, CPD certified and accredited by The CPD Certification Service
  • Ethics and Professionalism, Probity & Ethics, CPD certified and accredited by The CPD Certification Service
  • Professional Boundaries, Probity & Ethics, CPD certified and accredited by The CPD Certification Service
  • The Reflection Workshop (insight, reflect, remediate), Probity & Ethics, CPD certified and accredited by The CPD Certification Service

How the guides are written and checked

Written to the published standards

Each guide is written to the regulator’s own standards and published guidance, and links to them so you can read the source.

Sources listed

Each guide lists the pages it draws on: the standards, the regulator’s own pages, the legislation and the tribunal’s guidance.

Checked before publication

New guides and courses are checked against the regulators’ own pages before they are published, and corrected where the check finds an error.

Dated and reviewed

Pages carry the date they were published and the date they were last reviewed.

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