We don’t need bad doctors, but we don’t need bad appraisals and revalidations either

Whistleblowing on the flawed structure and process of NHS appraisal and General Medical Council revalidation is both a professional duty and overdue.1 When NHS appraisals started in 2002, a general practitioner I knew said: “I don’t see the need for this—when I look around I don’t see any bad doctors.” At that moment I realised the truism: “If I look around and can’t see …