About Fitness To Practice

Many health professionals who face a complaint are capable clinicians. Problems often start on the professional side of practice: a late record, a boundary that drifted, a rushed consent conversation, an angry reply to a complaint or an undisclosed mistake. These topics get little time in training and are rarely revisited.

Our aim is simple: short, practical, accurate courses on those topics, written for the country you practise in, that you can finish in an evening and actually use at work. We serve two groups: professionals keeping their learning up to date for recertification or renewal, and professionals who need to reflect and learn after a concern has been raised.

Health regulation is high-stakes information, so we hold ourselves to a strict sourcing rule: every legal or regulatory fact in a course must come from an official source.

1. Country brief first. Before any course is written, we build a research brief for that country from primary sources: legislation, regulator and board websites, codes of conduct and ethics, and official bodies. In New Zealand that means the Health Practitioners Competence Assurance Act 2003, the responsible authorities, the Health and Disability Commissioner and the Tribunal; in the United States, state practice acts and boards, the FSMB, the NCSBN, HHS and the professional codes of ethics.
2. Date-checked facts. Each fact is checked against the live official source and dated. The current editions were checked in October 2026. Anything we cannot confirm is left out or described in general terms rather than guessed.
3. Original writing. We write every lesson, case scenario and question ourselves. We do not reuse content from other course providers, and each country edition is written separately rather than by swapping names.
4. Independent checking. Each course is reviewed by separate checkers for legal and regulatory accuracy, teaching quality and assessment fairness before it is published.

Codes and guidance change. When a regulator or professional body publishes a new standard, we review the affected courses and update them. Recent examples we track include the Medical Council of New Zealand's guidance on using artificial intelligence in patient care (March 2026), New Zealand's new information privacy principle IPP 3A (in force from 1 May 2026) and the 2025 edition of the American Nurses Association Code of Ethics for Nurses.

If you find a fact on the site that seems wrong or stale, let us know via the contact page. Corrections to legal or regulatory facts are treated as a priority.

These rules apply to every page and every course we publish:

• We have no affiliation with, and no accreditation, approval or endorsement from, the bodies that regulate or represent health professionals. That covers the Medical Council of New Zealand, the Nursing Council of New Zealand, the Health Practitioners Disciplinary Tribunal, any US state board, the FSMB or the NCSBN.
• We do not claim that our courses award CE or CME credit or that they are board-approved.
• We never promise an outcome in a complaint, investigation, hearing, order or renewal.
• Our courses are education, not legal advice. We encourage anyone facing a regulatory process to get advice from their indemnity insurer, union, professional association or lawyer.

The New Zealand and United States editions are live, each with 12 courses priced in local currency. Further editions are in preparation and will open only once their research and checking are complete. One account works across every edition.

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