The General Medical Council (GMC) has raised issues that a ‘state of worry’ exists within the medical occupation as services throughout the UK come under increased pressure. The medical regulator’s warning that systems of healthcare and the health professionals working within them are having a hard time to deal with a series of problems– consisting of the effect of health services under pressure and fragile social care services1– appears in its annual report on The state of medical education and practice in the UK, published today (Thursday 27 October 2016). In their overview to this year’s report, Professor Terence Stephenson, the GMC’s Chair, and Niall Dickson, its President, highlight: Their intro to the report says: ‘There is a state of anxiousness within the medical pro …
Independent research commissioned by the General Medical Council (GMC) has found that four from 10 doctors are changing their practice as an outcome of their last appraisal. Around half of those medical professionals aged under 50 have changed their practice. The findings are from an interim report from a UK-wide cooperation of scientists, known as UMbRELLA and led by Plymouth University. This report belongs to a three-year research study into the effect of revalidation, following its introduction in December 2012. The report is based on a survey completed by more than 26,000 licensed doctors (16% response rate) together with hundreds of Responsible Officers and feedback from client and public agents. A further revalidation report has been published today by a collaboration of the Universities of Manc …
British Biking and Team Sky have no records at all to show exactly what was in a medical bundle reached France for Sir Bradley Wiggins at the end of the Critérium du Dauphiné race in 2011, the head of the UK’s anti-doping company has told a committee of MPs. In extremely harmful proof for the 2 carefully connected organisations, Nicole Sapstead said the team medical professional who received the secret jiffy bag at the race cannot submit computer system records as required, and later reported his laptop computer had been stolen on holiday. Sapstead, the president of UK Anti-Doping (Ukad), stated Dr Richard Freeman could potentially face investigation by the General Medical Council (GMC) for his bad record-keeping. She told the culture, media and sport committee that Freeman was the only person who declared to k.
training The General Medical Council(GMC)has today introduced a consultation on brand-new standards which, for the first time, will create a single set of standards for organisations providing medical education and training throughout the UK. The standards will bring together the medical education and training gotten by all doctors and is designed to make sure that fairness and clients’ safety, experience and quality of care lie at the core of mentor and training. The requirements set out how organisations need to promote and motivate a knowing environment and culture that permits students and fitness instructors to raise issues about client safety, and the standard of training, without worry of unfavorable repercussions. It will also explain that education and training ought to just happen where clients are saf …
MPs’doping questions Nicole Sapstead, the president of UK Anti-Doping, has delivered a disastrous account of her firm’s five-month examination into Team Sky and British Cycling, revealing her investigators met with “resistance” from the two organisations, and stating the General Medical Council [GMC] may well want to obtain included regarding the nearly complete absence of record-keeping when it concerned administering drugs. “We are unable to prove or refute the account we have been considered that it was fluimicil (as) there are absolutely no records whatsoever of any treatment at that event”. “No-one has any recognition of exactly what was put in the bundle. We have requested for stocks and medical records and we have not had the ability to establish that since there are no records”, she stated. His laptop computer was taken …
terms A LOCUM medical professional at Colchester’s health center trust used Google equate to comprehend English medical terms, a conference heard. Another did not have the “prescribed connection” by the General Medical Council – a recognition needed by physicians every 5 years. The events at Colchester General Hospital were raised by auditors. At a conference of Colchester Healthcare facility University NHS Structure Trust’s board of directors the other day it emerged the very first physician, whose citizenship has not been disclosed, was spotted during checks on the agency Pertemps. The audit was to make sure personnel it supplies to the trust had actually properly gone through look at certifications, referrals, restrictions to practice and English language checks. The trust’s managing director Dr Barbara Buckley told the meeting: …
Check out Professor Terence Stephenson’s letter to Professor Dame Sue Bailey, Chair of the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges. Professor Terence Stephenson, Chair of the General Medical Council, has written to Professor Dame Sue Bailey, Chair of the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges, following the statement that she will lead a review of the NHS training and employment experiences of doctors in training in England. His letter provides the review ‘the complete support of the GMC’ and says that, while the GMC has no function in legal matters, the GMC does have ‘substantial and important statutory obligations for the education and training of physicians in England and across the UK’. Read Professor Stephenson’s letter To see existing and upcoming hearings see the MPTS fitness to prac …
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