Restoring Your Registration
You can apply to restore your registration in the PSI online registration portal. Please log in to your account and select ‘Restoration to Register after Cancellation’.
If you were cancelled off the register prior to September 2021, you may need to contact us by email at registration@psi.ie to get access to your account. Please quote your registration number and that you want to restore your registration to the register.
Restoration following voluntary cancellation
Pharmacists who have voluntarily cancelled their registration have the right to apply for restoration to the Register of Pharmacists, subject to the successful completion of a restoration process.
An applicant must:
- complete the restoration process in the PSI online registration portal, providing details of practice and confirmation of on-going CPD since cancellation from the PSI Register
- Applicants should provide 2-3 pieces of CPD completed in the last 12-24 months
- pay the specified fee
- provide 2 recent photographs
- If you have been registered as a pharmacist elsewhere during the period of cancellation you will be required to arrange for a certificate of current professional status to be sent to us by the relevant competent authority
- If you have been living abroad and not registered as a pharmacist elsewhere during the period of cancellation you will be required to provide a criminal clearance certificate from the relevant jurisdiction
- If you have been living in Ireland during the period of cancellation you will need to complete and submit a statutory declaration
An applicant must:
- complete the restoration process in the PSI online registration portal, providing details of practice and confirmation of on-going CPD since cancellation from the PSI register
- Applicants should provide 2-3 pieces of CPD completed in the last 12-24 months
- pay the specified fee. Visit our fees page for more information.
- provide 2 recent photographs
- If you have been registered as a pharmacist elsewhere during the period of cancellation you will be required to arrange for a certificate of current professional status to be sent to us by the relevant competent authority.
- If you have been living abroad and not registered as a pharmacist elsewhere during the period of cancellation you will be required to provide a criminal clearance certificate from the relevant jurisdiction
- If you have been living in Ireland during the period of cancellation you will need to complete and submit a statutory declaration
- undertake to complete a self-assessment against the Core Competency framework to assess competency and learning needs. The self-assessment document can be downloaded here.
- This should be uploaded to the online application under “Self-Assessment Document”
An applicant must:
- complete the restoration process in the PSI online registration portal, providing details of practice and confirmation of on-going CPD since cancellation from the PSI register
- Applicants should provide 2-3 pieces of CPD completed in the last 12-24 months
- pay the specified fee. Visit our fees page for more information.
- provide 2 recent photographs
- If you have been registered as a pharmacist elsewhere during the period of cancellation you will be required to arrange for a certificate of current professional status to be sent to us by the relevant competent authority
- If you have been living abroad and not registered as a pharmacist elsewhere during the period of cancellation you will be required to provide a criminal clearance certificate from the relevant jurisdiction.
- If you have been living in Ireland during the period of cancellation you will need to complete and submit a statutory declaration
- undertake to complete a self-assessment against the Core Competency framework to assess competency and learning needs. The self-assessment document can be downloaded here.
- this should be uploaded to their online application under “Self-Assessment Document”
- undertake to engage in a period of practical training/re-familiarisation of not less than 2 weeks if she/he has not practiced in another jurisdiction during the period of cancellation from the Register
Exemption from this requirement may be obtained:
- upon the production of satisfactory evidence that she or he has been engaged in direct patient care pharmacy practice in another jurisdiction
- in circumstances where she or he does not intend to return to direct patient facing roles, a statement to this effect along with a commitment to undertake the period of mentored training if she or he subsequently decides to do so.
An applicant must:
- complete the restoration process in the PSI online registration portal, providing details of practice or activities and confirmation of on-going CPD since cancellation from PSI Register
- pay the specified fee. Visit our fees page for more information.
- provide 2 recent photographs
- If you have been registered as a pharmacist elsewhere during the period of cancellation you will be required to arrange for a certificate of current professional status to be sent to us by the relevant competent authority
- If you have been living abroad and not registered as a pharmacist elsewhere during the period of cancellation you will be required to provide a criminal clearance certificate from the relevant jurisdiction
- If you have been living in Ireland during the period of cancellation you will need to complete and submit a statutory declaration
- undertake to complete a self-assessment against the Core Competency framework to assess competency and learning needs. The self-assessment document can be downloaded here.
- This should be uploaded to their online application under “Self-Assessment Document”
- undertake to engage in a period of practical training/re-familiarisation of not less than 4 weeks if she or he has not practiced in another jurisdiction during the period of cancellation from the Register Exemption from this requirement may be obtained upon the production of satisfactory evidence that she or he has been engaged in direct patient care pharmacy practice in another jurisdiction
- in circumstances where she or he does not intend to return to direct patient facing roles, a statement to this effect along with a commitment to undertake the period of mentored training if she or he subsequently decides to do so.
Restoration following involuntary cancellation within 6 months
Pharmacists involuntarily cancelled from the Register of Pharmacists for non-payment of fees can undergo a restoration process if this request is received by the PSI within six months following the due date of payment of the annual fee. You can do this online in the registration portal.
- complete the restoration process in the PSI online registration portal
- pay the specified fee
- If you have been registered as a pharmacist elsewhere during the period of cancellation you will be required to arrange for a certificate of current professional status to be sent to us by the relevant competent authority
- If you have been living abroad and not registered as a pharmacist elsewhere during the period of cancellation you will be required to provide a criminal clearance certificate from the relevant jurisdiction
- If you have been living in Ireland during the period of cancellation you will need to complete and submit a statutory declaration
Re-Registration following involuntary cancellation after 6 months
Pharmacists removed from the Register of Pharmacists for non-payment of fees and who fail to make an application for restoration within the six-month period following the due date of payment of the annual fee for continued registration, will need to apply to re-register through the first-time registration process.
Read more about Fees for re-registration.