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A free e-Portfolio is now available to RCEM Fellows and Members. Follow the link above
Revised Good Medical Practice (April 2013)
The GMC revised guidance was formally launched on 23 April 2013. Eight pieces of explanatory guidance have also been published, along with updated online learning materials linked to the guidance. http://www.gmc-uk.org/guidance/index.asp?WT.mc_id=EMSR130422
Revalidation of licensed doctors begins Monday 3 December 2012
It is expected that the majority of licensed Emergency Medicine doctors in the UK will have been revalidated by 2016. Revalidation aims to give patients and the public, as well as employers and other healthcare professionals, extra confidence that doctors are up to date and fit to practice. All licensed doctors will need to revalidate on a regular basis (usually every five years) in order to keep their licence to practise.
The College is working hard to provide members with information to assist Emergency Doctors in revalidation. To use the portfolio, all Members and Fellows must ensure that their personal information is correct on the RCEM website. If it is not, they will not be able to register. Please login (bottom of the screen) and check or change your personal details, such as your employer, email or postal address.
A Revalidation Helpdesk is now available at the College. If you have any questions about revalidation please email them to revalidation@collemergencymed.ac.uk. A team of Specialty Advisers is on hand to answer non-standard queries, or provide tailored advice and information about revalidation in Emergency Medicine that may not be easily accessible elsewhere.
For general information about revalidation please go to the GMC website: http://www.gmc-uk.org/doctors/revalidation.asp
Announcement of medical revalidation in the UK from December (19 October, 2012)
The Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt announced today that from 3 December 2012, revalidation of doctors in the UK will commence. This represents a step forward in both the effective regulation of doctors and the creation in law of further measures to improve quality and safety of care across the entire health sector. Medical revalidation, and the associated mandatory requirements for individual licensed doctors, responsible officers and designated bodies, will provide additional assurance to patients and should improve confidence in the quality and safety of the services commissioned and provided for them. For further information about the GMC announcement please visit the GMC website.
Remediation Working Group Report September 2012
In 2010, the Department of Health for England (DH) commissioned a report on the remediation of doctors from a steering group chaired by Professor Hugo Mascie-Taylor. The group’s remit was to examine the ways in which issues of clinical competence or capability are currently handled in England and to make recommendations on future models and structures for remediation.
A key recommendation of this report was that ‘the Medical Royal Colleges should produce guidance and also provide assessment and specialist input into remediation programmes’. This report is written against the background of an expectation that the medical royal colleges and faculties should be "part of the solution" for the remediation of doctors whose performance has given rise to concern.