Will we be getting good doctors and safer patients?

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Adam James Pringle, general practitioner

Lawley, Telford TF4 2LL

ajpringle{at}doctors.org.uk

Last week, the Department of Health announced its plans for reforming regulation of doctors. The BMJ asked some of those affected for their opinions

It is sad, but unsurprising, to see the changes in medical regulation suggested in Good Doctors, Safer Patients1 being railroaded through unchanged despite the almost universal agreement among working doctors that they are fundamentally flawed (doctors.net.uk discussion forum). To quote Liam Donaldson, “There is little disagreement with the assertion that in 2006 every patient is entitled to a good doctor. Yet, there is no universally agreed and widely understood definition of what a …