From today the General Medical Council has been provided the power to challenge decisions of the tribunals that hear cases against medical professionals who are declared to have breached GMC standards. The modification to the Medical Act suggests the GMC can appeal against tribunal decisions to the High Court of Justice in England and Wales, the Court of Session in Scotland, the High Court of Justice of Northern Ireland when it thinks about the tribunal has not adequately safeguarded patients. Hearings for physicians presumed of breaching the GMC’s standards are run by the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service (MPTS) which was introduced in 2012. The MPTS makes independent choices and runs individually from the investigatory function performed by the Fitness to Practise arm of the GMC. The landmark law modifications will also …
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The state of UK medical education and practice: report from the GMC The General Medical Council recently published its 6th yearly report on the state of medical education and practice.1 Here are 5 things the report told us From 2011 to 2015 there was a 22% increase in the number of professionals who explained themselves as black and minority ethnic (BME) and an 18% increase in the … Register for a totally free trial to thebmj.com to get unrestricted access to all content on thebmj.com for 2 Week. Register for a complimentary trial Register for notifies If you have signed up for notifies, you should utilize your signed up e-mail address as your username If you are unable to import citations, please contact technical support for your item directly (links go to external sites): KEEP IN MIND: We only request your e-mail address so that the individual you are suggesting the page to knows t.
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Declaration following the result of the EU referendum General Medical Council’Withdrawing from Europe will have implications for the way that we manage medical professionals but we comprehend that the vote to leave the EU will have no effect on the registration status of any physician already on the register. ‘We will now check out how physicians from the EU will be approved access to the UK medical register and how any issues about those medical professionals will be shared in between us and other countries. We will likewise seek to understand the ramifications for UK doctors wanting to work in the EU once the UK is no longer a member state. ‘Much will depend upon whether the concept of totally free motion is preserved within the treaty of withdrawal. ‘We will now start to discuss these concerns with the 4 UK Federal governments. Our chief top priority in these conversations will …
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