Institute of Remote Site Healthcare Voluntary register

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Hello all,

I noticed recently that Maersk have as a requirement that their applicants must

have IRHC voluntary registration.

The IRHC states on their website they have a registration committee and

applicants will be assessed.

Does anyone know what the assessment criteria is?

Are they simply adopting the HSE guidelines as their criteria and we now have to

pay 180GBP for the process.

Or

Do they have their own selection criteria based on the registration committee

opinion?

I think a professional body is a good idea and I like the many of the ideas from

the IRHC however but I am concerned where this is going.

Thie registration process is not transparent and I think it should be.

Keeping in mind many of us already have professional registration I hope the

selection criteria is actually tightened and training providers and those they

train are more closely monitored.

Worst case scenario is nothing changes, any tom, dick or harry pay their medics

course fees and get the all important piece of paper but we all have to pay an

extra 180 GBP per year on top of professional body registration, union fees and

CPD.

kindest regards

Grant