GPs to face anual assessments & renewing licence every 5 yrs: JUST to stop more Shipmans? GB's total control??

Press Assoc. - 23 mins ago





Doctors will face annual assessments and licences removed from poor performers under proposals to be outlined by the Chief Medical Officer.





GPs, hospital consultants and private practitioners will also have to renew their licences every five years under plans to be announced by Sir Liam Donaldson.





He will call for senior doctors to assess others who are practising in their area to ensure they are not putting patients at risk. Patients will also be asked for their feedback during the assessment process.





Sir Liam's report, Medical Revalidation: Principle and Next Steps, will also suggest steps to ensure that doctors keep up to date with medical advances.





The annual assessments will look at prescribing habits, adequate assessment of a patient's condition and any personal issues which might affect their work, such as a problem with drugs of alcohol.





Harold Shipman, the GP who murdered at least 215 victims by giving lethal morphine injections %26gt;%26gt;%26gt;GPs to face anual assessments %26amp; renewing licence every 5 yrs: JUST to stop more Shipmans? GB's total control??
....I'd like to see how well this is going to work - they still havent got to grips with doctor's hours and now they're bringing in annual assessments - in theory it's a good idea, in practice it's a completely different ballgame!GPs to face anual assessments %26amp; renewing licence every 5 yrs: JUST to stop more Shipmans? GB's total control??
But it looks good, because they can now say ';we have responded and are doing everything possible to make sure it doesn't happen again';


So that's another box ticked.