Statutory registration means that individual health and social care professionals will have to apply to be accepted onto a professional register before they are permitted to practise, or continue to practise in Ireland. CORU is the statutory registration body for this.

The IMPACT website gives information on which professionals are required to register; the dates for the opening of these registers; what the registration fee is; what does compulsory registration mean in the practise of the profession; continuing professional development and dealing with fitness to practise complaints.

In a separate development the Irish Society of Chartered Physiotherapists (ISCP) has sought IMPACT’s support as it directs its members not to register with the new physiotherapy register under CORU, due to a dispute with the Minister for Health, Simon Harris TD. IMPACT has requested that physiotherapist members do not register with CORU while the dispute is ongoing. See news story in this e-bulletin.