Dear Colleague,

CORU regulates over 38,000 health and social care professionals across twelve designated professions in Ireland. Our role is to protect the public by ensuring that registered professionals meet and maintain the standards required for safe and effective practice.

We are now developing our Statement of Strategy for 2027–2030, and we want to hear from you.

The draft Statement of Strategy is available on this page on the CORU website. It sets out our five strategic priorities for the next four years:

• Building Capability and Scalability
• Supporting Safe and Effective Professional Practice
• Broadening Pathways to the Register
• Proportional Regulation for Public Protection
• Making the Value of Regulation Visible to the Public

These priorities have been shaped by engagement with stakeholders earlier this year, and by our consideration of the changing health and social care landscape in Ireland. We now want to test whether they reflect your experience and priorities, identify any gaps, and hear your views on whether the commitments we have made are the right ones.

How to respond

Please complete the short consultation survey below. The survey contains five questions and will take approximately 10 minutes to complete. The deadline for responses is 31 July 2026. Alternatively, you can submit your response by email to strategyandpolicy@coru.ie

👉 https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/89RM9NB

All responses will be reviewed and considered as we finalise the strategy for submission to the Department of Health later this year. A summary of consultation feedback will be published on CORU’s website.

If you have any questions about the consultation, please contact CORU’s Strategy and Policy team at the above email address.

We look forward to hearing from you.

Claire O’Cleary

Chief Executive Officer and Registrar

CORU – Health and Social Care Professionals Council