Bethany Lloyd has won a joint GMC and MSC competition about medical professionalism. Bethany Lloyd, a fifth year medical student at the University of Aberdeen, has won initially reward for her entry into a joint General Medical Council (GMC) and Medical Schools Council (MSC) competitors about professionalism. Medical trainees across the UK were asked to develop a mentor session on the significance of professionalism and based on the GMC’s publication Getting excellent medical practice: assistance for medical trainees. Ms Lloyd beat entries from around 100 other medical students by creating an appealing workshop about why professional worths are necessary to understand early on in a medical career. As part of her prize, Ms Lloyd was invited to provide her winning workshop at the GMC’s yearly confe …
future of revalidation A major independent examination has been released to assist form the future of revalidation. Practically 160,000 licensed doctors will be asked to undertake a study about the revalidation process to assist researchers evaluate where enhancements have to be made. Last year the GMC commissioned a UK-wide partnership of researchers (UMbRELLA) to carry out the evaluation. The views of doctors are being sought this month and will be followed by interviews with senior NHS staff and feedback from patients. The findings of the research are expected to be published in 2018. All licensed doctors have been invited to participate in the revalidation evaluation survey. Medical professionals not invited to take part in the study consist of trainee medical professionals, those who are provisionally registered and those who do not hold a …
Professor Terence Stephenson, Chair of the General Medical Council, reacts to plans announced today by the Secretary of State for Health. ‘Our failures, to paraphrase a terrific innovator, must be the opportunity to begin again more smartly. I invite any transfer to promote a culture of gaining from our errors, and this week’s statement represents a genuine opportunity to build that principles into the NHS. ‘A typical year on the NHS will see more than 5 million health center admissions, 3 million 999 calls, 300 million GP gos to, and 624 million prescriptions. Our healthcare employees do an extraordinary task but humans make mistakes, and it is estimated there are around 900,000 unfavorable occasions each year. ‘In that context today’s report by Imperial College London makes sobering re …
to work somewhere else Health centers are cannot raise issues about inexperienced locums, the physicians’guard dog alerts today. The General Medical Council states some supervisors choose not to notify other health centers about possibly risky firm workers who require up to ₤ 155 an hour to cover shifts. Some told locum agencies not to provide them with specific doctors– but didn’t make a formal complaint. They also cannot offer ‘frank feedback’ to the GMC about the people, leaving them totally free to operate at other trusts– potentially threatening patients. The regulator’s caution supports extensive concerns about locum physicians who cover for serious shortages of staff on the NHS. Some fly in from abroad or own in from somewhere else in the UK and do blocks of back-to-back shifts at hospitals. Specialists state they tend …
Talking about new fitness to practise data published in the GMC’s State of Medical Education and Practice report Niall Dickson, President of the General Medical Council, stated: ‘We don’t actually know why the number of grievances has decreased in general– on the company side, it might have been that in the added to revalidation that some organisations were starting to take on issues with a few of their doctors that ought to have been done long earlier and now that has been dealt with. ‘We would definitely hope that enhanced medical governance, which has been stimulated by revalidation, will mean that problems are being identified earlier and are being efficiently managed and remediated at local level. But these are early days and we need to see patterns over a longer period before reac …
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