Brand-new power for GMC to appeal tribunal choices

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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“> See all stories on this subject How professional are medical students?At completion of last year, we ran a survey to find out more about the expert worths of the UK’s medical trainees. Over 2,500 trainees participated to tell us what they thought. We asked if students thought it was OKAY to dodge train fares when money was tight, if it was appropriate to go back to a client’s home for a coffee, and if it was proper to grumble about a lecture on Facebook. We also requested for views on raising concerns and patient security. Our brand-new report brings together the responses we got. It shows that broadly, many students have an understanding of professionalism that matches exactly what we would anticipate from future medical professionals. Also, we can be cautiously assured by trainees’ views on raising concerns about patient safety and acting within their proficiency. The report highli …
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“> See all stories on this topic’ Adrenaline addict’homemaker confesses’I understood it was wrong’over illegal conferences with GP after her husband told him their marriage remained in problem A homemaker who had illicit conferences with her GP after her husband allegedly told him their marital relationship remained in difficulty has admitted:’I understood it was wrong’. The mother-of-one, who remains in her 40s, confessed meeting Dr William Arnett but insisted she had actually just meant their friendship to be platonic. Arnett apparently started texting the female after her husband, who was a client at his Sunderland surgical treatment, broke down during an assessment and said working far from home was having a severe impact on his family life. Arnett, 41, referred the husband to a counsellor but a medical tribunal heard he then got his wife’s number from her medical records and attempted to charm her. She erased the messages for worry her husband would find them but when she went to see Arnett for a breast examina …
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“> See all stories on this topic Shape of Training evaluation GMC declaration on the Forming of Training evaluation. Niall Dickson, Chief Executive of the General Medical Council, stated:’ There has been a great deal of remark and confusion around the shape of training evaluation and possible modifications to postgraduate medical training in the UK. The independent evaluation was established by the 4 federal governments of the UK to take a look at the changing requirements of clients and the kind of doctors that will be had to supply high quality care in the future. There are recommendations made in the review that could need changes to postgraduate training and everybody accepts that more work has to be done to comprehend the advantages and effect of such changes. ‘There is nevertheless a consensus that more need to be done to create physicians who have generalist skills to handle a …
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“> See all stories on this topic The GMC responds to The Guardian’s article about language screening for European medical professionals A response to The Guardian’s post about European medical professionals being avoided from acquiring a licence due to language checks. Niall Dickson, Chief Executive of the General Medical Council stated: ‘This has been an important patient safety measure. Medical professionals must be able to speak English correctly. That we can now examine physicians concerning the UK from elsewhere in Europe is proving reliable. More than 770 physicians from Europe did not offer evidence of their English language capabilities when they made their initial application and as a result they were not certified to operate in the UK. ‘We have also increased the score medical professionals have to achieve in the global English language test to make sure that only those with a high level of English are able to practise in the UK. ‘Thi …
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