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GMC to consult on radical structural changes

Linda Beecham BMJ

The United Kingdom's General Medical Council is asking doctors and the public for their views on several options for changing its size and structure and increasing the number of lay members who participate in its work.

Last July the GMC set up a working group after months of complaints from doctors and the public about, for example, the slowness of the council’s procedures and the small number of lay members. These complaints culminated in a vote of no confidence in the council "as presently constituted and functioning" at the BMA’s annual meeting (8 July, p 69).

In its document The Structure, Constitution and Governance of the GMC the GMC has set out several options for council membership: 25 members; about 100, as now; about 60; or a small statutory board of 15 to 25 members combined with a larger conference of 120 to . . . [Full text of this article]

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