Following a catalogue of serious, highly publicized medical misdemeanours, the General
Medical Council (GMC) has introduced plans for a new system of medical licensing in the …

Following a series of serious misdemeanours by British doctors, the General Medical
Council (GMC) has introduced a system of re-licensing called 'revalidation'. Annual medical …

JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF MEDICINE Volume 99 September 2006 their
national performance data set already established they are almost there. In general practice …

Occup Environ Med: first published as 10.1136/oem. 60.1. 1 on 1 January 2003.
Downloaded from adhering to this guidance. In fact, one might argue that functioning in a …

Australia's system of medical regulation has served the community and the profession well
since its establishment in the mid-19th century. But... will it continue to do so? The NSW …

Patients want doctors who are competent, respectful, honest and able to communicate with
them. This is patient-centred professionalism. In the United Kingdom, it is being embedded …

The past decade witnessed a series of high-profile inquiries that cast a noxious miasma over
the medical profession and provoked demands for strict regulation. Somehow, a balance …

Objective—To assess the responses of UK doctors to the General Medical Council's (GMC)
Good Medical Practice and the Duties of a Doctor, and to the GMC's performance …

It has been an extraordinary two years. The self confidence of the medical profession, and
public confidence in the system of medical regulation, have been shaken to the roots by …

Objectives: To describe professional discipline cases in Australia and New Zealand in which
doctors were found guilty of professional misconduct, and to develop a typology for …