Should GMC leaders be put to the sword?

doi:10.1136/bmj.321.7253.61

BMJ 2000;321:61 ( 8 July )

Editorials

Should GMC leaders be put to the sword?

No, doctors must work together

News p 69 Reviews pp 122, 123

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The growing dissatisfaction among doctors with the General Medical Council (the regulatory authority for doctors in the UnitedKingdom), which I wrote about just six weeks ago, has now boiledover.¹ The British Medical Association's annual representativemeeting last week passed by a substantial majority a vote of noconfidence in the council (p 69).² Despite intense battlesin the past between council leaders and rank and file doctors,this is a historic first. The meeting voted in favour of selfregulation and revalidation and only one or two representativesspoke in favour of scrapping the GMC. The discontent is with thestate of the GMC and its current leadership. Could everythingbe solved if the leadership resigned? When football teams loserepeatedly, their managers go. Should medicine follow football?As always, it's easier to moan about the problems than identifythesolutions.

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