BMJ 2000;320:1557 ( 10 June )

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Consultants attack "arrogant" GMC

Linda Beecham , BMJ

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Representatives of the United Kingdom's 32000 senior hospital doctors have overwhelmingly passed a vote of no confidence in the General Medical Council "as currently constituted and functioning." At the annual senior staffs conference last week, speakers cited the backlog in dealing with cases, the election of an antiestablishment candidate in the recent byelection (20 May, p 1357), poor media relations, and the GMC's proposals on revalidation (p 1607).

Mr Peter Terry, a consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist in Aberdeen, described the GMC as "dysfunctional, arrogant, and inefficient." Mr Terry said the body was failing to protect self regulation, and yet if doctors lost their majority on the council, regulatory responsibilities would pass to politicians. Dr Peter Hawker, who chairs the BMA's consultants' committee, said that the GMC seemed to have lost touch with the public, parliament, and the profession, and he believed that the revalidation proposals would be potentially intrusive and . . . [Full text of this article]

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