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CMO reveals UK revalidation plans
23-Jul-08
Final plans for revalidation and relicensing in the UK were announced by England's Chief Medical Officer (CMO), Sir Liam Donaldson today.
Under revalidation, GPs and all hospital doctors will face annual appraisal by colleagues, patients and senior doctors.
Doctors must eventually hold a licence to practice which will be reviewed and re-issued every five years, known as re-licensing.
‘Responsible officers’ will be senior doctors that will keep checks on doctors in their area in behalf of the GMC.
Licences to practice will be issued to doctors gradually from January 2009. Implementation of revalidation will begin in April 2009, although detail of the standards expected from GPs is still being designed.
Appraisals will be based on the core medical standards in Good Medical Practice for General Practitioners, which the RCGP and GPC are currently developing for revalidation.
It is the first time such a system for doctors has been announced anywhere in the world.
Critics such as the Medical Protection Society have said that the extra regulation of doctors will become ‘intrusive’ and may mean GPs spend less time spent with patients.
tom.ireland@haymarket.com
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Comments
Niall Finegan
23/07/2008
Peer review is a good thing. The involvement of "The Stasi" will serve only to ruin the whole process.
Watch for a visit from the monitoring police at 5.00am !!
Prison/gulag may be the outcome.
Jeremy Cox
23/07/2008
Peer review fine. What if you happen to get up the nose of the "Senior Doctor" in your area. What if a patient and his friends decide to do you down by putting in numerous anonymous complaints on the website. Surely all anonymous comments should be confirmed or disregared.
P Ambikapathy
24/07/2008
THIS IS A GOOD OPPORTUNITY TO GRAB HOLD OF -- LEST THIS MAY BE CARRIED OUT BY OUTSIDERS!
IF U ARE A PASSENGER IN A FLIGHT, YOU WANT TO BE ASSURED THAT THE PILOT IS APPROPRIATELY QUALIFIED AND UPDATED IN HIS JOB....SO IS A DOCTOR!
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