Medication Errors: Reflection and Remediation
This course explains why medication errors happen, what you must do when one occurs, and how to show a regulator or employer that you have understood the error and change…
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99 online courses for UK healthcare professionals. Free to study, with a verified certificate available for each course.
Reflection & remediation
Record Keeping and Documentation: Remediation Course
This course explains what good clinical documentation looks like, why record-keeping concerns arise, and why altering or falsifying a record is treated as a question of h…
47 min · 0.75 CPD hoursProbity and Dishonesty: Ethics Course for Healthcare Professionals
This course explains what probity means for UK healthcare professionals, how dishonesty arises in records, CVs, timesheets, sickness absence, research and financial matte…
45 min · 0.75 CPD hoursPatient Assessment, Observations and Escalation
This course covers how to recognise and respond to a deteriorating adult patient using structured assessment, NEWS2 and clear escalation. It explains why observations are…
44 min · 0.75 CPD hoursInsight and Remediation: Building Your Evidence
This course explains what UK healthcare regulators mean by insight and remediation, how they are assessed at each stage of a fitness to practise process, and how to plan,…
44 min · 0.75 CPD hoursHow to Write a Reflective Account (GMC, NMC, HCPC)
This course teaches you how to write reflective accounts that show genuine learning, for appraisal, revalidation, CPD and, where needed, a regulatory or employer process.…
42 min · 0.75 CPD hoursProfessional Boundaries Course
This course explains what professional boundaries are, how they are gradually crossed through boundary drift, and why relationships with patients and former patients, gif…
45 min · 0.75 CPD hoursSexual Safety and Sexual Misconduct in Healthcare
This course explains what sexual misconduct and sexual harassment mean in UK healthcare, towards both patients and colleagues, and the legal and professional standards th…
43 min · 0.75 CPD hoursCommunication, Attitude and Responding to Complaints
This course looks at why concerns about communication and attitude arise, how patients and colleagues experience a rude, dismissive or rushed manner, and how to give info…
43 min · 0.75 CPD hoursDuty of Candour Training
This course explains the two duties of candour that apply in UK healthcare: the professional duty that applies to every registered professional, and the statutory duty th…
44 min · 0.75 CPD hoursCriminal Convictions, Cautions and Declaring to Your Regulator
This course explains when UK healthcare professionals must tell their regulator and employer about criminal charges, cautions and convictions, including those received ab…
40 min · 0.75 CPD hoursWorkplace Behaviour, Aggression and Bullying
This course explains how aggressive, intimidating or bullying behaviour at work affects patient safety and colleagues, and why regulators treat it as a fitness to practis…
49 min · 0.75 CPD hoursClinical Decision-Making and Missed Diagnosis
This course explains how clinicians make diagnostic decisions, why skilled people miss or delay diagnoses, and the practical strategies that reduce the risk. It covers co…
45 min · 0.75 CPD hoursConsent and Mental Capacity Act Training
This course explains what makes consent valid in UK law and professional guidance, including the Montgomery judgment, and how to apply the Mental Capacity Act 2005 when a…
46 min · 0.75 CPD hoursConfidentiality and Data Protection Breaches
This course explains the duty of confidentiality, the legal framework for handling patient information in the UK, and the situations in which disclosure is lawful. It cov…
43 min · 0.75 CPD hoursSocial Media and Online Professionalism
This course explains how posts, comments, messages and private groups can lead to professional concerns, and what the UK health regulators expect of registrants online. I…
42 min · 0.75 CPD hoursFitness to Practise Explained: GMC, NMC and HCPC Processes
This course explains, step by step, how fitness to practise concerns are handled by the UK health regulators, from the first referral to a final hearing. It covers what i…
43 min · 0.75 CPD hoursWorking Within Your Scope of Practice
This course explains what scope of practice means for UK health professionals, how to recognise the limits of your competence, and how to delegate, accept delegation and …
43 min · 0.75 CPD hoursHuman Factors and Learning from Incidents
This course explains why skilled and caring professionals make errors, using the science of human factors, the Swiss cheese model and the idea of a just culture. It shows…
44 min · 0.75 CPD hoursPatient Safety Incident Response Framework (PSIRF)
This course explains how NHS organisations in England now respond to patient safety incidents under the Patient Safety Incident Response Framework, and what your role is …
48 min · 0.75 CPD hoursRaising Concerns and Freedom to Speak Up
This course explains your professional duty to raise concerns about patient safety and wrongdoing, how to raise a concern well, and where to go if your concern is not dea…
45 min · 0.75 CPD hoursEquality, Diversity and Unconscious Bias
This course explains the Equality Act 2010 and what it means for clinical care and teamwork, how unconscious bias can affect clinical decisions and workplace behaviour, a…
43 min · 0.75 CPD hoursPractising Safely When Unwell or Fatigued
This course explains how physical illness, mental health problems and fatigue can affect your clinical performance, and what your regulator expects you to do when your he…
42 min · 0.75 CPD hoursAlcohol, Substances and Professional Conduct
This course explains what regulators and employers expect of healthcare professionals in relation to alcohol and substances, both at work and in private life. It covers r…
42 min · 0.75 CPD hoursIntimate Examinations and the Use of Chaperones
This course explains how to carry out intimate examinations safely, respectfully and lawfully, including valid consent, offering and using chaperones, communication, and …
44 min · 0.75 CPD hoursSpecialty patient safety
Maternity Care and Fetal Monitoring Concerns
This course teaches safe fetal monitoring in labour, including intermittent auscultation, structured CTG review and escalation, using UK guidance and the lessons of natio…
44 min · 0.75 CPD hoursParamedic Practice: Assessment and Non-Conveyance Decisions
This course teaches a structured approach to assessment and safe decision-making when a paramedic considers discharging a patient on scene or referring them to an alterna…
42 min · 0.75 CPD hoursRestrictive Practice and Use of Force in Mental Health
This course explains the legal and professional framework for restrictive practices in mental health settings in England, including physical restraint, seclusion, long-te…
55 min · 1 CPD hoursClinical Risk Assessment and Discharge in Mental Health
This course teaches a structured, formulation-based approach to clinical risk in mental health, in line with current NICE guidance that moves away from risk prediction to…
45 min · 0.75 CPD hoursMental Health Act 1983: Lawful and Safe Practice
This course gives doctors and nurses in England a practical understanding of the Mental Health Act 1983 as it applies on the ward and in emergency settings, including the…
52 min · 0.75 CPD hoursSafety-Netting in Emergency Care
This course teaches doctors and nurses working in emergency departments, urgent treatment centres and same-day services how to make safe discharge decisions under pressur…
48 min · 0.75 CPD hoursNever Events and Surgical Safety
This course explains what Never Events are, why wrong-site surgery, retained items and similar incidents still happen despite strong safety barriers, and what you must do…
46 min · 0.75 CPD hoursWHO Surgical Safety Checklist in Practice
This course teaches you how to use the WHO Surgical Safety Checklist as it was intended: as a team conversation that catches errors, not a form to complete. It covers the…
43 min · 0.75 CPD hoursAirway Incidents and Escalation in Anaesthesia
This course looks at serious airway incidents in anaesthesia, intensive care and emergency medicine, with a particular focus on unrecognised oesophageal intubation, struc…
42 min · 0.75 CPD hoursRemote Consultation and Remote Prescribing
This course teaches a safe, structured approach to telephone, video and online consultations, and to prescribing when you cannot examine the patient in person. It explain…
43 min · 0.75 CPD hoursTest Results Management in Primary Care
This course explains how to build and work within a safe system for test results in general practice, from requesting a test to making sure the patient knows the outcome …
45 min · 0.75 CPD hoursRecognising the Deteriorating Patient (NEWS2)
This course teaches you how to recognise and respond to an adult patient who is getting worse, using accurate observations, the National Early Warning Score 2 (NEWS2), cl…
42 min · 0.75 CPD hoursSepsis: Recognition and Early Management
This course teaches you how to recognise sepsis early in adults, assess risk using NEWS2 and the NICE approach, deliver the Sepsis Six, and escalate within the time frame…
43 min · 0.75 CPD hoursFalls Prevention and Post-Fall Management
This course teaches a practical, evidence-based approach to preventing falls in hospital and community settings, and to caring for a patient safely after a fall. It cover…
45 min · 0.75 CPD hoursMoving and Handling Safety in Rehabilitation
This course teaches you how to plan and carry out moving and handling safely during rehabilitation, balancing the patient's goals and independence with the safety of the …
44 min · 0.75 CPD hoursPressure Ulcer Prevention and Reporting
This course teaches nurses and midwives how to identify people at risk of pressure ulcers, deliver prevention using the SSKIN bundle, categorise pressure damage accuratel…
42 min · 0.75 CPD hoursPaediatric Prescribing and Dose Calculation
This course teaches the principles of safe prescribing, preparation and checking of medicines for children, with a strong focus on weight-based dose calculation. It expla…
46 min · 0.75 CPD hoursControlled Drugs: Safe Handling and Accountability
This course explains the UK legal framework for controlled drugs and the practical steps for ordering, storing, recording, administering, returning and destroying them sa…
44 min · 0.75 CPD hoursDispensing Errors in Community Pharmacy
This course explains how and why dispensing errors happen in community pharmacy, how to use near-miss and error records to improve safety, and how to build safer dispensi…
43 min · 0.75 CPD hoursCommunication
Breaking Bad News Training (SPIKES)
This course teaches a structured, compassionate approach to breaking bad news using the six-step SPIKES framework. Each step is explained with worked dialogue, and the co…
42 min · 0.75 CPD hoursDifficult Conversations with Patients and Families
This course gives you practical, published approaches for conversations that involve anger, disagreement, complaints or expectations that cannot be met, including the NUR…
45 min · 0.75 CPD hoursSBAR Handover Training
This course teaches you to use SBAR (Situation, Background, Assessment, Recommendation) for clear, structured handover and escalation. It shows how information is lost at…
42 min · 0.75 CPD hoursTelephone Communication and Escalation
This course teaches you how to make and receive urgent clinical telephone calls clearly and safely. It covers preparing before you call, structuring the call with SBAR, r…
42 min · 0.75 CPD hoursWorking with Interpreters
This course explains when and how to use professional interpreters, including spoken language and British Sign Language interpreters, in face-to-face, telephone and video…
43 min · 0.75 CPD hoursLearning Disability and Autism: Communication and Reasonable Adjustments
This course helps you communicate well with people with a learning disability and autistic people, make reasonable adjustments, and avoid diagnostic overshadowing. It cov…
43 min · 0.75 CPD hoursDe-escalation of Aggression and Violence
This course teaches you to recognise the early warning signs of aggression, understand its causes, and use verbal and non-verbal de-escalation techniques to keep patients…
44 min · 0.75 CPD hoursShared Decision-Making
This course explains what shared decision-making is, why UK law and professional standards require it, and how to do it well in a busy clinical setting. You will learn a …
43 min · 0.75 CPD hoursProfessional Written Communication in the NHS
This course teaches you to write clinical letters, emails, referrals and messages that are clear, accurate and professional, following UK expectations. It covers structur…
42 min · 0.75 CPD hoursClinical safety & emergencies
Adult Advanced Life Support (UK Guidelines)
This course explains the recognition and management of adult in-hospital cardiac arrest, based on the current Resuscitation Council UK adult advanced life support guideli…
48 min · 0.75 CPD hoursPaediatric Life Support (UK Guidelines)
This course teaches the recognition of the seriously ill or injured child and the management of paediatric cardiorespiratory arrest, based on current Resuscitation Counci…
46 min · 0.75 CPD hoursTrauma: Primary Survey and Initial Management
This course teaches a structured approach to the first hour of care for a seriously injured adult, based on UK practice and NICE major trauma guidance. It covers trauma t…
44 min · 0.75 CPD hoursSafeguarding Adults
This course explains how to recognise abuse and neglect of adults, what the Care Act 2014 requires, and how to respond and make a safeguarding referral in England. It cov…
44 min · 0.75 CPD hoursSafeguarding Children and Young People
This course explains how healthcare professionals in England recognise and respond to concerns that a child or young person may be suffering, or at risk of, significant h…
42 min · 0.75 CPD hoursInfection Prevention and Control
This course teaches the infection prevention and control practice expected of every healthcare professional in England, based on the NHS England National Infection Preven…
44 min · 0.75 CPD hoursBlood Transfusion Safety
This course covers safe blood transfusion practice in UK hospitals, from deciding whether a transfusion is needed through to monitoring the patient and managing reactions…
43 min · 0.75 CPD hoursVenous Thromboembolism Prevention
This course explains how to prevent hospital-acquired venous thromboembolism in adults, following NICE guideline NG89. It covers risk assessment, balancing thrombosis and…
41 min · 0.75 CPD hoursAcute Kidney Injury: Recognition and Management
This course teaches you how to recognise acute kidney injury early, how to find and treat its cause, and how to review medicines and fluids safely. It follows the NICE gu…
44 min · 0.75 CPD hoursEnd of Life Care and Verification of Death
This course teaches you how to recognise when an adult may be in the last days of life, how to communicate with them and those close to them, and how to manage common sym…
46 min · 0.75 CPD hoursDNACPR Decisions and ReSPECT Conversations
This course explains how decisions about cardiopulmonary resuscitation are made, discussed and recorded in the UK, and how the ReSPECT process places those decisions with…
44 min · 0.75 CPD hoursAnaphylaxis: Emergency Recognition and Treatment
This course teaches you how to recognise anaphylaxis quickly and give intramuscular adrenaline without delay, following the Resuscitation Council UK guideline. It covers …
42 min · 0.75 CPD hoursStarting your NHS career
Your First NHS Job: Induction and Expectations
This course is a practical guide to your first weeks in an NHS job, written for newly qualified staff and for professionals who trained outside the UK. It explains what h…
44 min · 0.75 CPD hoursYour First Week on the Ward
This course is a practical survival guide for doctors and nurses starting on a UK hospital ward. It explains how ward rounds, jobs lists, bleeps and handovers work, and t…
43 min · 0.75 CPD hoursHow the NHS Works: Structure and Roles
This course explains how the NHS is organised, how primary, secondary and community care fit together, and who does what in the teams you will join. It is written for new…
43 min · 0.75 CPD hoursRotas, Working Hours and Exception Reporting
This course is a practical guide for doctors starting work in the NHS on how rotas, work schedules and working hours rules operate, and how to report extra hours or misse…
43 min · 0.75 CPD hoursPrescribing in the UK: BNF and Electronic Systems
This course is a practical guide to prescribing and checking prescriptions in the UK for new starters and internationally educated professionals. It explains how to use t…
44 min · 0.75 CPD hoursWriting Safe Discharge Summaries
This course teaches doctors how to write a discharge summary that a GP can act on safely. It explains what GPs and community teams need, the national standards for discha…
42 min · 0.75 CPD hoursSurviving On-Call and Night Shifts
This course prepares doctors, nurses and midwives to work safely through on-call and night shifts. It covers how to prioritise competing tasks, when and how to escalate a…
43 min · 0.75 CPD hoursAppraisal and Revalidation Explained
This course explains the difference between appraisal and revalidation, and sets out what the GMC, NMC, HCPC and GPhC each expect from the professionals they regulate. It…
41 min · 0.75 CPD hoursBuilding Your Professional Portfolio from Day One
This course shows you how to build a professional portfolio from your first week in a new role, so that appraisal, revalidation, job applications and interviews are easie…
42 min · 0.75 CPD hoursInternational nurses
NMC Registration for Internationally Educated Nurses
This course walks internationally educated nurses and midwives through each stage of joining the NMC register, from checking you are ready to receiving your PIN. It expla…
41 min · 0.75 CPD hoursNMC CBT Preparation (Test of Competence Part 1)
This course prepares internationally educated nurses for Part 1 of the NMC Test of Competence, the computer-based test. It explains the structure of the numeracy and clin…
43 min · 0.75 CPD hoursNMC OSCE Preparation: APIE Stations
This course prepares internationally educated nurses for the four linked APIE stations of the NMC OSCE: assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation. It explains h…
45 min · 0.75 CPD hoursNMC OSCE Preparation: Skills Stations
This course prepares internationally educated nurses for the skills, professional values and evidence-based practice stations of the NMC OSCE. It walks step by step throu…
42 min · 0.75 CPD hoursThe NMC Code for New UK Nurses
This course explains the NMC Code and shows how to apply it in everyday UK nursing and midwifery practice. It works through each of the four themes with realistic example…
42 min · 0.75 CPD hoursAdapting to UK Nursing Practice and Culture
This course helps internationally educated nurses and midwives settle into UK practice. It explains the autonomy expected of UK registered nurses, how documentation, comm…
42 min · 0.75 CPD hoursNMC Revalidation for Internationally Educated Nurses
This course explains NMC revalidation step by step for nurses and midwives who joined the UK register after training abroad. It covers each requirement, from practice hou…
43 min · 0.75 CPD hoursInternational doctors & AHPs
GMC Registration Routes for International Doctors
This course explains how an international medical graduate can gain full registration with a licence to practise from the General Medical Council. It sets out each route …
43 min · 0.75 CPD hoursGood Medical Practice: Professional Standards for Doctors
This course explains the GMC's Good Medical Practice (2024), the core standards every doctor registered in the UK must follow. It works through the four domains using eve…
43 min · 0.75 CPD hoursAdapting to UK Clinical Practice and NHS Culture
This course prepares internationally trained doctors and allied health professionals for the everyday realities of working in the NHS. It covers team structures and hiera…
42 min · 0.75 CPD hoursClinical Attachments: Making the Most of Your Placement
This course explains what a clinical attachment is, what it can and cannot do for an international medical graduate, and how to find one. It then covers how to behave and…
43 min · 0.75 CPD hoursMoving to the UK: Pre-Employment Checks and First Steps
This course explains the checks every NHS employer must complete before you start work, including identity, right to work, registration, references, criminal record check…
42 min · 0.75 CPD hoursHCPC Registration for International Allied Health Professionals
This course explains how internationally trained physiotherapists and other allied health professionals apply to join the Health and Care Professions Council register. It…
42 min · 0.75 CPD hoursCareer progression
NHS Job Applications and Supporting Statements
This course teaches you how NHS applications are shortlisted and how to write an application and supporting statement that clearly matches the person specification. It us…
42 min · 0.75 CPD hoursNHS Interview Skills
This course prepares you for NHS interviews by explaining how panels assess candidates and how to give structured, evidence-based answers. It covers common question types…
43 min · 0.75 CPD hoursClinical Audit and Quality Improvement
This course teaches you how to plan, complete and present a clinical audit, and how quality improvement differs from audit. It walks through a complete worked audit cycle…
41 min · 0.75 CPD hoursPortfolio Pathway (CESR) Planning
This course explains the GMC's Portfolio pathway, the route to the Specialist or GP Register for doctors who have not completed a UK training programme leading to a CCT. …
43 min · 0.75 CPD hoursSpecialty Training Applications
This course explains how UK medical specialty training recruitment works, from eligibility and the person specification through verified self-assessment, the Multi-Specia…
43 min · 0.75 CPD hoursProgressing to Band 6 Nursing
This course explains what a Band 6 role involves in the NHS, the skills and evidence employers look for, and how to write a supporting statement and prepare for interview…
43 min · 0.75 CPD hoursAdvanced Clinical Practice Pathways
This course explains what advanced clinical practice means in England, the four pillars of the multi-professional framework, and the main routes into an advanced practice…
43 min · 0.75 CPD hoursTeaching & leadership
Teaching Skills for Healthcare Professionals
This practical course teaches you how to plan and deliver effective teaching in clinical settings, from a formal session to five minutes at the bedside. It covers how adu…
49 min · 0.75 CPD hoursClinical Supervision and Giving Feedback
This course explains the different kinds of supervision used in UK healthcare, how to set up a supervisory relationship that works, and how to give structured feedback th…
42 min · 0.75 CPD hoursLeadership and Team Working in the NHS
This course explains what leadership means for every healthcare professional, not only managers, and teaches practical skills for leading a shift or team, delegating safe…
42 min · 0.75 CPD hoursTime Management and Prioritisation
This course gives practical tools for managing a heavy clinical workload safely: prioritising by clinical risk, organising a task list, handling interruptions, and knowin…
41 min · 0.75 CPD hoursResilience and Preventing Burnout
This course helps you understand burnout, recognise its early signs in yourself and colleagues, and build sustainable working habits. It explains why burnout is mainly a …
42 min · 0.75 CPD hours