Probity and ethics for health and care professionals
If you have been accused of dishonesty, this course is for you. It teaches how dishonesty is actually determined, why conscientious professionals act against their own values, and how to evidence insight — without conceding a fact you dispute. One live day online, three weeks to write, and a reflection you can put in front of a panel.
Registrants of every UK health and care regulator
Facing an allegation now
You are under investigation, or waiting for a hearing, and you have been told to reflect without ever being told what a regulator actually means by insight. You will not be asked to write a narrative account of your own conduct — see the two tracks below.
After a finding
You have a finding, undertakings or conditions, and you need evidenced remediation rather than another certificate. You leave with a body of reflective work, a dated log and a remediation plan that is still running.
Applying for restoration
Restoration turns on demonstrating sustained insight over time. A dated body of reflective work, built up over weeks rather than assembled in a weekend, is the kind of evidence that is very hard to produce after the fact.
Employers and responsible officers
Commissioning structured remediation for a member of staff, delivered independently of you. We report completion and nothing else; the reflective work belongs to the registrant.
Eleven modules, one live day, and a reflection that stands up
Most registrants go through fitness to practise proceedings without ever being taught the test that is applied to them. This course starts there. It covers how a tribunal decides whether conduct was dishonest, the six recognised types of professional dishonesty, the evidenced ranking of aggravating and mitigating factors, why decent people do dishonest things, and what insight means as a technical requirement rather than a feeling.
- One live online Sunday, 07:00–14:25, facilitated by a psychotherapist
- Three weeks to do the reflective work, at your own pace
- An online reflection tool that asks questions rather than writing for you
- Knowledge and scenario questions at the end, to check what has actually landed
- Optional one-to-one follow-up sessions, bookable separately
- Materials for your own regulator or accredited register
- The worksheet pack — clause finder, case analysis, remediation plan, dated log
- Your reflective work reviewed, with written feedback from the Sequentus education team
- Six weeks from the live day to your feedback — at your own pace, no minimum hours
If your case is live, you will not be asked to write an admission
Reflective notes can be required by a court. That is the General Medical Council’s own guidance, and it is the reason this course runs two tracks. You tell us privately which applies; nobody else in the cohort knows.
Track A — proceedings are live
The facts are not yet found, or you are contesting them. You work on supplied published cases, and you are taught how to evidence insight while maintaining a denial. You are not marked down for it. The law is more on your side here than most registrants realise.
Track B — the facts are settled
A finding has been made, or you have admitted the conduct. You work on your own case throughout, and the portfolio is a full reflective account.
A deliberately mixed room
Doctors, nurses, paramedics, dentists, pharmacists, social workers, counsellors and psychotherapists in the same cohort. The principles do not change by profession, and registrants learn more from another regulator’s rules than from any amount of teaching.
What stays in the room
The live session is never recorded. Nothing said is repeated outside. You can pass on any activity at any time, without giving a reason.
And then we delete it
Six weeks after you finish, we delete everything you wrote — your reflective work, your log, our feedback, the lot. You get the complete pack first, so you keep the work and we do not. Most training providers say nothing about this. We think you should be told.
Your own code, not a generic one
You tell us your regulator when you enrol, and your materials come pre-filled with your own clause numbers, your own self-report trigger, and the part of your code that catches your own registrants out. The principles are common to everyone; the detail is yours.
Health regulators
General Medical Council · Nursing and Midwifery Council · Health and Care Professions Council, covering all fifteen professions · General Dental Council · General Pharmaceutical Council · Pharmaceutical Society of Northern Ireland · General Optical Council · General Osteopathic Council · General Chiropractic Council
Social work and social care
Social Work England · Scottish Social Services Council · Social Care Wales · Northern Ireland Social Care Council
Counselling and psychotherapy
BACP · BABCP · UKCP · NCPS and the other PSA accredited registers. A voluntary register is not the soft option — on reporting duties, several of these are stricter than the GMC, and the test for dishonesty is identical.
Sunday intakes from October
Fixed cohorts, not rolling enrolment — the group work needs a group that starts together. The live day is a Sunday morning, 07:00 to 14:25, so most people do not need to take leave for it. Six weeks from the live day to your feedback session. Minimum eight learners; we will tell you fourteen days before if an intake is not running.
Live day Sunday 18 October 2026, 07:00–14:25 — online. Submit by Sunday 8 November
- One live Sunday, 07:00–14:25
- Reflective work at your own pace afterwards
- Eleven modules and the worksheet pack
- Materials for your own regulator
- Guided reflection tool
- Written feedback on your reflective work
- Founding cohort rate
Live day Sunday 22 November 2026, 07:00–14:25 — online. Submit by Sunday 13 December
- One live Sunday, 07:00–14:25
- Reflective work at your own pace afterwards
- Eleven modules and the worksheet pack
- Materials for your own regulator
- Guided reflection tool
- Written feedback on your reflective work
- Founding cohort rate
Live day Sunday 20 December 2026, 07:00–14:25 — online. Submit by Sunday 10 January
- One live Sunday, 07:00–14:25
- Reflective work at your own pace afterwards
- Eleven modules and the worksheet pack
- Materials for your own regulator
- Guided reflection tool
- Written feedback on your reflective work
- Founding cohort rate
Live day Sunday 24 January 2027, 07:00–14:25 — online. Submit by Sunday 14 February
- One live Sunday, 07:00–14:25
- Reflective work at your own pace afterwards
- Eleven modules and the worksheet pack
- Materials for your own regulator
- Guided reflection tool
- Written feedback on your reflective work
- Founding cohort rate
Live day Sunday 28 February 2027, 07:00–14:25 — online. Submit by Sunday 21 March
- One live Sunday, 07:00–14:25
- Reflective work at your own pace afterwards
- Eleven modules and the worksheet pack
- Materials for your own regulator
- Guided reflection tool
- Written feedback on your reflective work
- Founding cohort rate
Live day Sunday 4 April 2027, 07:00–14:25 — online. Submit by Sunday 25 April
- One live Sunday, 07:00–14:25
- Reflective work at your own pace afterwards
- Eleven modules and the worksheet pack
- Materials for your own regulator
- Guided reflection tool
- Written feedback on your reflective work
- Founding cohort rate
Live day Sunday 9 May 2027, 07:00–14:25 — online. Submit by Sunday 30 May
- One live Sunday, 07:00–14:25
- Reflective work at your own pace afterwards
- Eleven modules and the worksheet pack
- Materials for your own regulator
- Guided reflection tool
- Written feedback on your reflective work
- Founding cohort rate
Places are limited to keep the room workable. This is a Sequentus Education course and you receive a Sequentus Education certificate of completion — it is not a regulated qualification. What you take away is the work: your reflective account, a dated log and a remediation plan, all of which you can put in front of a panel. To be told when enrolment opens, email us.
FAQ
As a guide, most people spend around ten hours over the three weeks: re-reading the modules that mattered to them, three short notes on what they took from an external resource, one reflective account and a remediation plan. Some spend considerably more, and if you have a hearing coming that is time well spent. Some do the Sunday and take only the framework away, and that is a legitimate outcome too.
If we achieve accreditation the hours become formal — a regulated qualification carries a defined study time. We will tell you plainly if and when that changes.
You also receive the complete pack of everything you produced — your reflective account, your remediation plan and your log — which in practice is what a panel will actually read.
The legal content — how a tribunal decides whether conduct was dishonest, what a panel is listening for, what happens under cross-examination — is also covered in recorded sessions by Khaled Hussain-Dupré, a solicitor who represents registrants before these regulators — the same material, from someone who has watched it play out in the room.
Raf teaches the legal principles as part of the course — the test a tribunal applies, what a panel weighs. What he will not do is tell you how it applies to your case. That is your representative’s job, and you would be right not to trust anyone else on it.
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