FND Connect · Online learning
FND training for therapists, nurses and GPs
CPD Accredited Training
Self-accredited course. FND CONNECT CIC is the training provider. It has reviewed this course against the FND Connect CPD Charter and verified that it meets the conditions for accreditation.
Clinical reasoning and coordinated care for adults with FND.
12 modules · printable workbook · completion certificate
£99 per person · one-off payment
FND training for therapists, nurses and GPs working with adults. This self-paced course covers Functional Neurological Disorder (FND): positive diagnosis, communication, functional seizures, rehabilitation and referral. It is clinical education for the multidisciplinary team, including physiotherapists and occupational therapists. It is not a hands-on physiotherapy certificate and not a CBT workshop. Children's healthcare teams have a separate course.
- Explain a positive FND diagnosis, recognise diagnostic uncertainty and assess new symptoms without diagnostic overshadowing.
- Review functional-seizure plans, medicines and rehabilitation needs while respecting professional scope and referral boundaries.
- Coordinate care with the adult, appraise treatment evidence and develop an accountable plan through twelve clinical cases.
Choose with confidence
Adult healthcare, primary care and community services
For: Nurses, GPs, allied health professionals and multidisciplinary teams
Develop shared clinical understanding of adult FND within existing professional competence.
Use the learning in your setting
Use twelve clinical cases to examine positive diagnosis, uncertainty, communication, functional seizures, rehabilitation and coordinated referral and follow-up. The workbook supports professional reflection and MDT discussion.
Choose paediatrics for children and adolescents. Care workers without clinical assessment responsibilities should choose social care. Completion does not certify clinical competence.
For nurses, GPs and allied health professionals
Course: FND for Adult Healthcare Teams
For registered nurses, general practitioners (GPs), community nurses, allied health professionals and multidisciplinary adult healthcare teams. The course assumes existing clinical training and uses professional terminology, clinical uncertainty and complex cases. It is not an introductory care-worker course.
Professional clinical education: For nurses, GPs and adult community healthcare professionals with existing clinical training. No specialist FND experience is required, but this course assumes professional assessment and care responsibilities. Apply your competence, supervision, current guidance and local pathways. It does not certify clinical competence or replace specialist assessment.
Supporting a relative or friend outside a paid care role? Caring for someone with FND is free after a reviewed access request.
What your £99 includes
Twelve in-depth modules for nurses, GPs and adult community healthcare teams. Allow around nine hours for reading, linked guidance and case reflection, plus assessment time. Those nine hours are the CPD hours on the certificate.
- Twelve professional-level written modules with clinical reasoning sequences and linked guidance
- Twelve fictional case conferences with worked clinical responses
- 120 assessment questions with explanations; 80% in every module and unlimited retakes
- A printable workbook with twelve clinical reflection and planning templates
- A named FND for Adult Healthcare Teams Certificate of Completion with a unique verification record
Course coverage: Clinical formulation; positive diagnosis and differential; communication and shared decisions; acute change; functional seizures; medicines; motor rehabilitation; cognition, communication and swallowing; pain, fatigue and mental health; referral boundaries; evidence appraisal; and a complex-case capstone.
Allow around 9 hours for reading, reflection and the suggested activities, plus assessment time. Those hours are the CPD hours and CPD credits on the certificate. Assessment time is not added. Pause and return whenever you need.
CPD Accredited Training
Self-accredited course. FND CONNECT CIC is the training provider. It has reviewed this course against the FND Connect CPD Charter and verified that it meets the conditions for accreditation.
The workbook is available after enrolment. The online practical portfolio requires saved decisions and revised outputs. Structured decisions are checked automatically; written explanations are not independently marked. Healthcare courses also require the final-case rubric. Professional education for nurses, GPs and adult community healthcare teams with existing clinical training. Apply your competence, supervision, current clinical guidance and local pathways. This course does not credential diagnosis, prescribing, specialist therapy or emergency care. Sources have been checked; the course has not undergone independent clinical peer review. Cases and workbook responses are fictional teaching examples, not patient-specific protocols.
Try a scenario from the course
The normal scan shortcut
A GP receives a discharge letter saying ‘MRI normal, likely FND’ after a patient developed limb weakness. No positive signs or follow-up are described. Six weeks later the patient reports a new pattern of symptoms. A colleague suggests copying the original diagnosis into all future referrals.
Think it through: Identify what the letter does and does not establish.
Read the worked response
The letter records a normal investigation and a provisional interpretation; it does not document a positive diagnosis. Assess the new presentation and its urgency on clinical grounds. Request clarification of the original phenotype, examination evidence, alternatives and follow-up. A referral should describe chronology and objective findings and ask the unresolved question explicitly. Preserve uncertainty in the record rather than upgrading the label. New disease and FND may coexist, so reviewing new evidence need not invalidate appropriate earlier findings.
Each of the 12 modules includes a practical activity with a worked response.
FND training for therapists, nurses and GPs: course modules
Adult FND: mechanisms and clinical formulation
A neurological condition, an individual formulation and explicit uncertainty
Learning outcomes and activity
- Distinguish a diagnostic explanation from an individual causal formulation
- Map symptoms, coexisting illness and participation separately
- Identify the limits of mechanistic models and professional roles
Practise: One label, three different problems
Positive diagnosis and the differential
Clinical evidence, test limitations and diagnostic overshadowing
Learning outcomes and activity
- Explain what positive diagnostic evidence means
- Recognise limitations of examination signs and investigations
- Frame a referral that communicates uncertainty and competing diagnoses
Practise: The normal scan shortcut
Acute change and safety-netting
Avoiding both missed illness and unnecessary escalation
Learning outcomes and activity
- Assess change from an established baseline without diagnostic overshadowing
- Distinguish emergency action from planned review
- Write specific safety-netting and clinical handover
Practise: The unchanged label, changed presentation
Functional seizures: assessment and episode care
Event types, diagnostic confidence and a safe individual plan
Learning outcomes and activity
- Distinguish evidence about one event type from assumptions about all events
- Apply safe episode support and escalation boundaries
- Identify the information required for a specialist-authored seizure plan
Practise: Two events, one label
Medicines and preventing iatrogenic harm
Indications, reconciliation and supervised prescribing decisions
Learning outcomes and activity
- Separate treatment of functional seizures from valid coexisting indications
- Identify medication-related contributors and handover risks
- Plan a documented prescribing review without unsafe abrupt withdrawal
Practise: Three prescriptions, no owner
Motor rehabilitation and meaningful function
Movement retraining, participation and proportionate support
Learning outcomes and activity
- Explain the rationale of FND-informed motor rehabilitation
- Balance participation, equipment and safety without coercion
- Agree and review a functional goal across nursing and therapy teams
Practise: The wheelchair ultimatum
Cognition, communication and swallowing
Access to care, differential assessment and specialist boundaries
Learning outcomes and activity
- Assess the impact of cognitive and communication symptoms without assuming incapacity
- Recognise when swallowing or cognitive change needs further assessment
- Coordinate accessible care and relevant specialist input
Practise: An unanswered telephone is not refusal
Pain, fatigue, mental health and comorbidity
Treatable contributors, risk and a coherent whole-person plan
Learning outcomes and activity
- Assess associated symptoms without diagnostic overshadowing
- Distinguish a treatment target from an assumed cause of FND
- Prioritise physical and mental health needs with the person
Practise: Too many plans, too little capacity
Referral boundaries and coordinated care
Primary care continuity, MDT roles and accepted handovers
Learning outcomes and activity
- Select a referral question, destination and urgency
- Allocate responsibility while patients wait or cross services
- Write a handover that can be accepted, acted on and reviewed
Practise: The referral that nobody owned
Evidence appraisal and treatment choices
What trials support, what they do not and how to explain uncertainty
Learning outcomes and activity
- Distinguish guideline, consensus and trial claims
- Interpret primary and secondary outcomes without overstating benefit
- Discuss a treatment choice using relevance, uncertainty and patient priorities
Practise: The cure claim in the referral leaflet
Complex case review and service improvement
Consent, safeguarding, accountable follow-up and applying the learning
Learning outcomes and activity
- Integrate clinical uncertainty, autonomy and coordinated support in a complex case
- Distinguish safeguarding concern from assumptions about diagnosis or family roles
- Design a proportionate service improvement with a balancing measure
Practise: Capstone: a plan that works beyond the meeting
How it works
Enrol
Pay once with your name and email. You'll get a private link to your course — no account or password needed.
Learn & test
Work through 12 modules at your own pace and pass a short test at the end of each (retake as often as you need).
Receive your certificate
Pass every module and download your Certificate of Completion — uniquely numbered and publicly verifiable.
A record of what you have completed
Pass every module at 80% to earn your FND for Adult Healthcare Teams. You must also answer every safety-critical question correctly. Retakes use a fresh selection after you review your feedback. You must also complete the practical portfolio, including the final case on healthcare courses.
Download a named Certificate of Completion with your completion date, a unique certificate number and a public verification link. Retakes are unlimited and included in your course price.
Issued by FND CONNECT CIC. This is not a regulated qualification.
CPD Accredited Training
Self-accredited course. FND CONNECT CIC is the training provider. It has reviewed this course against the FND Connect CPD Charter and verified that it meets the conditions for accreditation.
Research and guidance behind the course
Published by FND Connect (FND CONNECT CIC). Edition 2026.10; source links checked 8 October 2026. The modules distinguish research findings, professional guidance and local service examples. Selected reading includes:
- NICE NG127: neurological recognition and referral in adults — Symptom-specific assessment and referral, including new symptoms in established FND. Apply current local pathways and urgency.
- NICE NG252: rehabilitation for chronic neurological disorders — 2025 guideline includes FND; read relevant recommendations, related condition guidance and local implementation arrangements.
- AAN (2025): management of functional seizures, clinician summary — US professional guideline, published December 2025; informs evidence discussion, not a UK emergency protocol or prescribing authority.
- Nielsen et al. (2024): Physio4FMD randomised trial — Specialist versus community neurological physiotherapy: distinguish the primary outcome from secondary findings.
- Goldstein et al. (2020): CODES randomised trial — Dissociative-seizure-specific CBT plus standardised medical care versus standardised medical care; not evidence about all forms of FND.
- NMC: The Code — Professional responsibilities, records, communication, referral and working within competence; not course accreditation.
Full references are included in the modules and workbook. Linking to a source does not imply its authors or organisation endorse this course. The source check is not independent clinical review or accreditation.
Use the learning in professional reflection
CPD Accredited Training. FND CONNECT CIC has reviewed this course against the FND Connect CPD Charter and verified that it meets the conditions for accreditation. The certificate shows nine guided learning hours as CPD hours and CPD credits. Assessment time is not added. It does not show supervised clinical competence, and it is not a regulated qualification. Your employer or professional body decides whether to accept the hours.
Use the case conferences and workbook for self-directed reflection or team discussion. The Certificate of Completion requires passing the online assessments, staged practical exercises and an automatically checked final-case rubric; it does not credential diagnosis, prescribing, specialist therapy or emergency care. The course has not undergone independent clinical peer review.
CPD Accredited Training
Self-accredited course. FND CONNECT CIC is the training provider. It has reviewed this course against the FND Connect CPD Charter and verified that it meets the conditions for accreditation.
Frequently asked questions
Who is the FND training for therapists, nurses and GPs course for?
For nurses, GPs and adult community healthcare professionals with existing clinical training. No specialist FND experience is required, but this course assumes professional assessment and care responsibilities. Apply your competence, supervision, current guidance and local pathways. It does not certify clinical competence or replace specialist assessment.
What is included in the £99 course price?
12 online modules, a test for each module, unlimited retakes and a downloadable Certificate of Completion after passing every module and completing the practical portfolio. A printable professional workbook with twelve fictional clinical cases, worked responses, source links and twelve templates for formulation, communication, safety-netting, episode-plan review, medicines, rehabilitation, MDT handover, evidence appraisal and service improvement. Use fictional information only. This is a one-off payment per person, not a subscription.
How long does the course take?
Allow around 9 hours for reading, reflection and the suggested activities, plus assessment time. Those 9 hours are the CPD hours and CPD credits on the certificate. Assessment time is not added. Study at your own pace and return using your private access link.
Is this accredited FND CPD adult healthcare training?
Yes. This is CPD Accredited Training. Self-accredited course. FND CONNECT CIC is the training provider. It has reviewed this course against the FND Connect CPD Charter and verified that it meets the conditions for accreditation. The certificate shows 9 guided learning hours, counted as 9 CPD credits. This is not a regulated qualification, and it is not endorsement by a statutory regulator. Your employer or professional body decides whether to accept the hours.
How do I earn the certificate?
Pass each module assessment with at least 80%. Every safety-critical question must also be answered correctly. After an unsuccessful attempt, review the feedback and lesson before starting a fresh selection of questions. Complete the staged practical portfolio as well; healthcare courses include a final case with six automatically checked criteria. Written reflections are saved but not independently marked. You can retake tests as often as you need. Your downloadable Certificate of Completion shows your name, the course, completion date, CPD hours, CPD credits and a unique certificate number with a public verification link. It is issued by FND CONNECT CIC. It is CPD-accredited by FND Connect and it is not a regulated qualification.
Is this live training or a video course?
It is self-paced learning through written modules, diagrams, practical scenarios and short tests. The printable workbook supports the required online practical portfolio. Structured decisions are checked automatically; written explanations are saved but not independently marked. There are no scheduled live sessions.
What happens after payment?
After successful payment, you can access your course through a private link, which is also emailed to you. You do not need to create an account or password. Use your own name and email so your access and certificate are correctly assigned.
How does this course differ from the other FND courses?
Choose paediatrics for children and adolescents. Care workers without clinical assessment responsibilities should choose social care. Completion does not certify clinical competence.
Can staff use the free family carers course instead?
No. Free family-carer access is reserved for unpaid personal caring and requires manual approval. Paid care work, care networks and organisational training need a paid course for the relevant setting. Each learner receives their own access and completion record.
Is this an FND physiotherapy course?
It is FND training for therapists, including physiotherapists and occupational therapists, alongside registered nurses, general practitioners (GPs) and community nurses. It reviews rehabilitation evidence, including Physio4FMD, and how the team coordinates therapy. It is not a practical physiotherapy certificate, and it is not CBT training.
Does this cover FND diagnosis and referral for GPs?
Yes. The course examines positive diagnostic evidence, differential and coexisting conditions, limitations of investigations, new symptoms and focused referral questions. It supports clinical reasoning within existing competence; it does not qualify learners to perform or interpret specialist examinations independently.
What does the course cover for nurses and community teams?
Communication, changes from baseline, functional-seizure plans, medicines reconciliation, rehabilitation support, cognition, speech and swallowing concerns, pain, fatigue and mental health. Cases address professional roles, escalation, patient autonomy, accessible care and accepted MDT handovers.
How detailed is the adult healthcare course?
There are twelve modules and 120 assessment questions, with a clinical case and worked response in every module. Dedicated sections examine treatment evidence, including Physio4FMD and CODES, and a final complex-case exercise brings assessment, coordination and service improvement together. Each module requires an 80% pass and correct answers to every safety-critical question. Retakes use a fresh selection after feedback review. The practical portfolio and final-case decision checks are also required. Written work is saved but not independently marked.
Has the adult healthcare course had independent clinical peer review?
This is CPD Accredited Training. FND CONNECT CIC has reviewed the course against the FND Connect CPD Charter and verified that it meets the conditions for accreditation. It has not undergone independent clinical peer review. Sources were checked on 8 October 2026. Completion is educational and does not demonstrate supervised clinical competence.
Does it provide prescribing or emergency treatment protocols?
No. It teaches how to recognise the boundaries of an established plan, identify questions for review and coordinate appropriate care. Individual prescribing, medicine withdrawal, rescue treatment and emergency responses require competent clinical judgement, current guidance and local protocols.
Can our practice or community team book together?
Yes. Team booking costs £99 per learner. Add each colleague's name and email and pay once. Each learner receives private access, separate progress and their own certificate after passing every module and completing the practical portfolio. A two-person booking costs £198.
Enrol in FND training for therapists, nurses and GPs
£99 per person, paid once. Includes all 12 modules, workbook, tests, retakes and your certificate after passing the assessments and completing the practical portfolio.