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Have you checked the expiry date on your PHECC licence recently?


PHECC Practitioner Re-registration

Your PHECC practitioner licence is issued on an annual basis over a 3-year period. For administrative purposes a registration period of 3 years duration has been applied to date. The vast majority of practitioners comply with re-registration, however, there has been an increase in the number of late re-registrations. Licence expiry is an extremely serious matter for you the practitioner. If you fail to re-register you are NO longer authorised to implement PHECC CPGs nor are you authorised to administer medications as per SI 510 of 2005 or SI 512 of 2008. If you practice under an expired licence you are acting outside the law and may be personally liable. You have no legal protection for your actions. 
  

Registration Fee

There has been no change in the PHECC registration fee. This remains at €10 per annum amounting to a payment of €30 at re-registration time. Council have, however, authorised the introduction of an increasing scale of fees, outlined below, to be applied for late registration. This sees the introduction of a penalty for late re-registration combined with a mechanism to regain entry onto the register. Prior to this, the only way to be eligible to rejoin the Register was for a practitioner to re-sit the NQEMT Examination at their particular level. 

Re-Registration Process

The re-registration process and associated fees are outlined in the table below.

 RE-REGISTRATION PROCESS
 Registration Type  Time
Period		  Cost  Process
 Normal  8 weeks prior to licence expiry  €30 8 weeks prior to licence expiry, notification is sent out to each registrant due for 3-yearly renewal. The deadline for receiving applications is 2 weeks prior to licence expiry date. The 3-year re-registration fee is €30. 
 Late
2 weeks prior to licence expiry
 		  €50 On failing to re-register and 2 weeks prior to licence expiry, a further letter is sent. Registrants now have until the last day of their licence expiry to complete the re-registration process. Late registration incurs a fee of €50.
 Restoration Period  Up to 3 months from licence expiry  €150 Practitioners who fail to re-register during the late period become unlicenced and are further invited to re-register within a 3-month restoration period. Restoration period re-registration incurs a fee of €150.
Post-
Restoration Period 		  After 3 months from licence expiry  €300 After 3 months from licence expiry date a practitioner will be informed that he/she must submit an application letter to the Registrar outlining reasons for late re-registration including a CV detailing experience and training undertaken since registration lapsed. This application incurs a fee of €300.

 
Remember:
  • check the expiry date on your licence
  • until you re-register you are NOT registered and your practice is limited
  • inform us of any change to your postal address since you joined the register (claire@phecc.ie) otherwise your re-registration correspondence may not reach you and result in you paying increased fees