Other regulated healthcare professions

Self-employed

With fees

Some healthcare professions, called regulated healthcare professions, can only be practiced in Luxembourg with an official licence.

This licence is delivered by the Ministry of Health.

In order to obtain it, applicants must fulfil the criteria for professional integrity and demonstrate the physical and psychological health needed for the profession.

Provisions concerning nurses, midwives, doctors and dentists are not covered by the present text.

Who is concerned

Professions concerned

Several regulated healthcare professions require a licence, including:

Who is concerned

A professional healthcare practitioner who wishes to settle and practise in Luxembourg must be a national of:

an EU Member State, or;
a State of the European Economic Area (Iceland, Liechtenstein or Norway), or Switzerland, or;
a third country, and:
- have a valid residence permit, or;
- have been granted international protection.

Persons who have been temporarily or permanently disqualified from practising in the country in which they last practised their profession are not permitted to practise in Luxembourg either. The same applies if disqualification proceedings are currently under way.

Prerequisites

Whatever the health profession envisaged, the professional must fulfill several conditions:

hold a Luxembourg or foreign diploma giving him access to the profession envisaged;
be proficient in at least one of the languages required to practise the profession in Luxembourg, i.e.:
- French; or
- German;
understand one of the 3 administrative languages of Luxembourg (German, French and Luxembourgish).

The language knowledge of the professional in one of these 3 languages may be tested at the request of the Minister of Health.

Preliminary steps

If the diploma has not been awarded in Luxembourg, the professional must request recognition of his diploma.

The application for recognition is to be sent exclusively to the Ministry of National Education, Children and Youth (ministère de l'Education nationale, de l'enfance et de la jeunesse - MENEJ) if the profession concerned is that of:

nursing auxiliary / healthcare assistant;
masseur.

The application for recognition is to be sent exclusively to the Ministry of Higher Education and Research (

social hygiene assistant;
social worker;
dietician;
nursing orderly;
laboratory worker;
speech therapist;
orthoptist;
curative teacher;
chiropodist;
psychomotricity reeducator.

For certain professions, the application for recognition is to be sent to either the MENEJ or the MESR, depending on the level of education attained by the professional. If the studies are baccalaureate (or equivalent) level or less, the application should be sent to the MENEJ. If the studies are university-level (baccalaureate +), the request is to be made to the MESR. The professions concerned are:

surgical technical assistant;
laboratory medical / technical assistant;
radiology medical / technical assistant;
occupational therapist;
anaesthetist nurse;
paediatric nurse;
psychiatric nurse;
masseur-physiotherapist.

Costs

Any person who wishes to settle in Luxembourg as a professional in one of the regulated professions presented here must pay a fee in order to obtain authorisation to practice.

Its amount is EUR 75.

The tax must be paid by direct deposit or wire transfer to the bank account of the Registration Duties, Estates and VAT Authority (Administration de l’enregistrement, des domaines et de la TVA), along with a statement of the applicant's identity and the purpose of the payment.

Account holder: Administration de l'enregistrement, des domaines et de la TVA
Account number: IBAN LU13 1111 0011 4679 0000 (Swift Code: CCPLLULL)
Communication : AUTOPROFSANTE + name of the professional

How to proceed

Application for authorisation to practice

To practise their profession in Luxembourg, the professional must send the application for authorisation to practise the profession, completed and signed, to the Department for Healthcare professionals of the Ministry of Health, enclosing the following documents:

a copy of a valid ID document or passport, and, for third-country nationals:
- a copy of a valid residence permit; or
- a document proving that they have been granted international protection;
an extract from their criminal record issued by their country of residence within 6 months prior to the application (original document – photocopies will not be accepted). If the professional has been living in the country in question for less than one year, he must attach a criminal record of the country or countries in which he has practised before;
a certificate of good mental and physical health issued by a licensed doctor (within 6 months prior to the application);
a copy of the Luxembourgish or foreign diploma;
if applicable, the official order confirming recognition of their diploma;
a curriculum vitae;
proof of payment of the EUR 75 tax;
if the person's mother tongue is not French, German or Luxembourgish, proof of their language skills.

If the documents are not in German, French or English, a translation certified by a 'sworn translator' must be attached.

As a reminder, the health professionals' contact details are listed in the register of healthcare professions.

To this end, health professionals are required to update their contact information in the register if their situation changes (address of the medical practice, email address, phone number, etc.).

Professional reinsertion internship

If the healthcare professional has not exercised their profession for at least 5 years, they must take part in a reintegration internship before starting their activity again.

They must inform the Minister of Health of their intention to take such a course, specifying:

the number of years of inactivity;
the workplace and department they wish to reintegrate;
whether or not they have participated in continuing education in the field.

The minister will provide the professional with:

a list of accredited training sites with available places;
the number of hours of practical training they must receive;
a list of continuing education courses;
the number of lesson hours the professional will have to attend.

An internship agreement must then be signed between the trainee, the training supervisor, the representative of the training centre, and the Ministry of Health.

The training supervisor must have at least 5 years of professional experience in the same profession as the professional who is following the reinsertion training course.

Particularity for healthcare assistants: healthcare assistants who graduated before 2002 must undergo a refresher course in addition to the reinsertion course.

Forms / Online services

Demande d'autorisation d'exercer une profession de santé

Télécharger le formulaire PDF, 157 Kb

Antrag für die Ausübung eines Gesundheitsberufes

Das Formular herunterladen PDF, 171 Kb

Convention de stage de réintégration

Télécharger le formulaire PDF, 111 Kb

Demande de reconnaissance des qualifications professionnelles obtenues à l'étranger

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Antrag zur Anerkennung im Ausland erhaltener Berufsqualifikationen

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Who to contact

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Department for Healthcare Professionals, Medical Professions and Chemists

Villa Louvigny, Allée Marconi
L-2120 Luxembourg
Luxembourg

Phone : Physician: (+352) 247 85523; Dentist: (+352) 247 85516

Fax : (+352) 46 79 60

Physician: (+352) 247 85523; Dentist: (+352) 247 85516 Department for Healthcare Professionals, Medical Professions and Chemists Path to Department for Healthcare Professionals, Medical Professions and Chemists