Time for radical reform

doi:10.1136/bmj.330.7506.1504

BMJ 2005;330:1504-1506 (25 June), doi:10.1136/bmj.330.7506.1504

Education and debate

GMC and the future of revalidation

Time for radical reform

Kieran Walshe, professor of health policy and management¹, Lawrence Benson, lecturer in healthcare and public sector management¹

¹ Centre for Public Policy and Management, Manchester Business School, Manchester M15 6PB

Correspondence to: K Walshe Kieran.Walshe@man.ac.uk

Changes to UK professional regulation have lacked strategicdirection. The current reviews offer an opportunity for fundamentalreform that can regain public confidence

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Introduction

Despite substantial reform of the regulatory systems for UKhealthcare professionals over the past decade,¹ public and politicalfaith in the professions and their regulators is lower thanever before. In part this results from authoritative criticismin several public inquiries²—most notably the Bristoland Shipman inquiry reports.^3
4 But another factor has beenthe constant litany of apparent failure to deal with incompetence,serious dishonesty, sexual misconduct, and unchecked wrongdoingsuch as the cases of Richard Neale,⁵ Clifford Ayling,⁶ RodneyLedward,⁷ Peter Green,⁸ and Dick van Velzen.⁹ Recent legal reformscreated a new Council for Healthcare Regulatory Excellence tooversee the regulators. The council has the power to refer regulators'decisions on fitness to practise that it regards as unduly lenientto the High Court for review. This process has also thrown upa series of apparent failures of professional regulation thatdo little to build public confidence.¹⁰

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Strategy for reform

Harmonisation

Definition of roles

Continuing competence

Governance

Next steps

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