Chief medical officer's report on the nation's health: Poorly performing doctors are to be dealt with more fairly

doi:10.1136/bmj.327.7412.422-a

Correction for Kmietowicz, BMJ 327 (7406) 69.

BMJ 2003;327:422 (23 August), doi:10.1136/bmj.327.7412.422-a

Correction

Chief medical officer's report on the nation's health: Poorly performing doctors are to be dealt with more fairly

In the histogram in this News article by Zosia Kmietowicz weinadvertently got the legend the wrong way round (12 July, p 69). The dark orange shading in fact represents hospitaland community doctors, and the pale shading represents generalpractitioners. The graph therefore shows that among older doctors(aged $>=$ 50) more general practitioners than hospitaland community doctors were referred to the National ClinicalAssessment Authority during April 2001 to December 2002; amongyounger doctors (aged < 50), more hospital and communitydoctors were referred.