In short
A healthcare organisation can buy our integrity and ethics CPD courses for its staff in three ways: course licences (blocks of seats in the online courses, assigned to named people, with a completion record), Bulk Buy packages of the £79 online courses (3 for £200, 5 for £300, 10 for £500), or live facilitated CPD courses run for a group by video link, 5 CPD hours each. Licence seats and live sessions are quoted against the number of people; every course is CPD certified and accredited by The CPD Certification Service, with a dated certificate for each person. All the CPD courses linked from this guide are by Probity & Ethics, written by Dr Shehzad Iqbal.
Responding to a concern in your team?
A complaint, an employer investigation or a regulator’s letter about one person, or a pattern across a department, and you need certificated work you can assign now.
Building integrity and ethics into CPD?
Induction, annual appraisal or a governance plan that asks for ethics, probity and boundaries to be covered before anything goes wrong.
What integrity training courses for healthcare staff cover
Integrity in healthcare is probity: being honest in records, claims, declarations and money, and keeping the trust that patients and colleagues place in a professional. Ethics is the reasoning behind each decision. A course for staff should cover both, against the standards their own regulator publishes, and give a dated certificate for each person. The online courses an organisation can choose from include:
- Probity for Healthcare Professionals and Financial Integrity for Healthcare Professionals, for honesty and integrity;
- Ethics for Healthcare Professionals and the ethics course for each register, for ethical decisions;
- Professionalism for Healthcare Professionals and Professional Boundaries for Clinicians, for conduct with a patient or a colleague, including dual relationships;
- Professionalism in Documentation, Duty of Candour and Ensuring Confidentiality, for the record and the patient’s trust.
Each is online and self-paced, £79 (£50 with Bulk Buy 10) for 2 CPD hours bought singly, and written for the nine UK regulators, so doctors, nurses, pharmacists, dental and allied health staff can take the same set.
How can a healthcare organisation buy ethics and integrity courses?
The right route depends on the number of people, and on whether the work has to be done alone or together.
- Course licences for a team of any size that needs online courses assigned to named people and a record of completions.
- Bulk Buy for a small group, or a manager buying a few courses for colleagues at the published package price.
- Live facilitated courses for a department or a whole team that should work through cases together with a facilitator.
Organisations that represent professionals rather than employ them, such as defence organisations, indemnity insurers and regulatory law firms, have a fourth route: a member access scheme, with a code that gives their members a reduced rate at no cost to the organisation.
Course licences for a team
With a course licence, the organisation pays for a set number of seats, priced under the single-course rate, and gives each seat to one named member of staff.
- You pick the courses; staff see only those, not the full list.
- Each seat lasts a year from the date you give it to someone, and they can return to the course any number of times in that year.
- Every completion gives a dated CPD certificate with the person’s name, the course and the CPD hours.
- Your account shows who holds a seat, which courses each person has finished and on what date, and the record exports for governance or audit files.
- You pay for seats only: nothing to set up, no platform fee, no minimum contract. The seat price depends on how large the group is, so it is quoted rather than published.
Licences suit organisations that employ, engage or teach the professional: NHS trusts, private hospitals and clinics, dental groups, recruitment agencies and universities.
Bulk Buy for a small team
Bulk Buy packages are bought online: 3 of the £79 courses for £200, 5 for £300 or 10 for £500, which brings each course down to £50 in the 10-course package. With 10 courses, one live face-to-face course can be added for £949 in total. The Modules on Insight, Reflection and Remediation are £49 each and count towards the Bulk Buy packages. Each package is bought through one profession’s course list. For more places than a package covers, or a mixed team, ask for a quote.
Live integrity and ethics training for a group
Four live courses run for a group from one organisation, by video link, on dates agreed with you to fit your rota:
- Probity and Ethics Course: honesty and integrity, the regulators’ guidance on probity and ethics, case review, and what to do if a breach happens;
- Ethics and Professionalism Course: ethical principles, ethical dilemmas and what professionalism is made up of;
- Professional Boundaries Course: boundaries with a patient or a colleague, consent and chaperones, and what helps keep them;
- Reflection Workshop: Insight, Reflect, Remediate: reflective practice and an action plan for remediation.
Each carries 5 CPD hours, and everyone who completes receives a certificate. The content can be weighted to one regulator’s standards or to the kinds of incident your organisation has seen, discussed in general terms. Live sessions are quoted on enquiry. A department can combine a live session with licensed seats for individual follow-up.
What the organisation sees, and what stays private
When a professional buys a course with their own money, it stays private: nobody at their workplace, regulator or defence body hears about it from us. A licensed seat works another way, since the paying organisation has to know the seat was used. Anyone redeeming a seat is told in one plain sentence, before the course opens, that the organisation will see which courses they complete and when. The organisation sees the assignment, the completion, the date and the certificate; it does not see how long someone took, their reflective writing, or what they tell us.
After a concern, and for CPD
When a concern has been raised about one person, a licensed seat lets you assign the matching course the same day. The dated certificate then goes in that person’s file and in your governance record of the action taken. The person still writes their own reflection; that is what a case examiner or a panel reads. How a course fits a response is in our guide to a fitness to practise complaint.
With no concern raised, the same courses serve CPD: 2 hours each for appraisal, revalidation or renewal, recorded with a reflection. Our guides to the ethics CPD course and CPD accreditation explain how the hours and the certificate are recorded.
Please note
No UK healthcare regulator approves or endorses courses from any provider, and none keeps an approved list. Certification by The CPD Certification Service means an independent body has assessed the course content; it is not regulatory approval. No course decides the outcome of an individual case.
Ask for a quote
For healthcare organisations
Licences, Bulk Buy and live courses
Tell us roughly the number of people, which professions, and whether you want online seats, a live session or both. We will say which route fits and come back with a figure. Probity & Ethics is CPD certified and accredited by The CPD Certification Service (provider no. 13197).
- Online courses £79 (£50 with Bulk Buy 10)
- Live courses 5 CPD hours
- Certificate for each person
Courses organisations choose
Guides that help
The CPD courses linked from this guide, Probity for Healthcare Professionals, Financial Integrity for Healthcare Professionals, Ethics for Healthcare Professionals and Professionalism for Healthcare Professionals, are by Probity & Ethics, written by Dr Shehzad Iqbal, CPD certified and accredited by The CPD Certification Service (provider no. 13197) and offered since 2020.
Questions and answers
Can an NHS trust or clinic buy integrity courses for its staff?
Yes. A course licence gives the organisation a block of seats to assign to named staff, with a dated CPD certificate for each completion and an exportable record of who completed what.
How much do course licences cost?
Seat prices are quoted for the size of the group rather than published, and you pay for seats only, with no set-up cost or minimum contract. A single online course bought on its own is £79 (£50 with Bulk Buy 10).
Can a practice manager buy a few courses without a licence?
Yes. Bulk Buy packages are 3 courses for £200, 5 for £300 or 10 for £500, bought online. The £49 Modules on Insight, Reflection and Remediation count towards the packages too.
Is there live integrity and ethics training for a group?
Yes. Four live courses run by video link for a group from one organisation: Probity and Ethics, Ethics and Professionalism, Professional Boundaries, and the Reflection Workshop. Each carries 5 CPD hours, with dates arranged around your rota and a quote on enquiry.
Will we see what our staff write in the course?
No. On a licensed seat the organisation sees the assignment, the completion, the date and the certificate. It does not see time spent or reflective writing, and each person is told what is shared before the course opens.
Are the courses approved by the regulators?
No UK healthcare regulator approves or endorses courses from any provider. Our courses are CPD certified and accredited by The CPD Certification Service, which is an external check, not regulatory approval.
