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GMC sets up steering group on revalidation

Linda Beecham, BMJ

Britain's General Medical Council (GMC) has agreed that specialists and GPs must be able to show--on a regular basis--that they are keeping up to date and remain fit to practise.

The council passed this recommendation unanimously at its recent biannual meeting and agreed to set up a steering group to propose appropriate mechanisms, including revalidation. It decided, however, to leave on the table a recommendation that the revalidation should be linked to entry in the specialist register and a general practice equivalent until the steering group has reported. The group will comprise representatives from the council's main committees and include lay members.

In the wake of the Bristol case, in which three doctors were found guilty of serious professional misconduct and the continuation of professional self regulation was called into question (27 June, p 1924), the GMC's president, Sir Donald Irvine, suggested that revalidation . . . [Full text of this article]

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