General Medical Council: selection of BMA sponsored candidates; professional conduct committee

BMJ ◽  
1984 ◽  
Vol 288 (6410) ◽  
pp. 90-90
Keyword(s):  
General Medical Council ◽  
Medical Council ◽  
Professional Conduct ◽  
Selection Of

Changes in surgical consent practices for common otolaryngology procedures: impact of Modernising Medical Careers

2010 ◽  
Vol 124 (8) ◽  
pp. 899-904 ◽  
Author(s):  
P Puwanarajah ◽  
S E McDonald
Keyword(s):  
National Health Service ◽  
Telephone Survey ◽  
Elective Surgery ◽  
General Medical Council ◽  
Medical Council ◽  
Consent Forms ◽  
Department Of Health ◽  
Medical Careers ◽  
Patient Consent ◽  
Selection Of

AbstractObjectives:To assess elective surgery consent practices amongst senior house officers from a selection of UK ENT departments, and to compare results with similar surveys in 2002 and 2005.Methods:A telephone survey of senior house officers in 40 UK ENT departments was conducted to assess departmental consent policies and knowledge of complications of common ENT operations.Results:A total of 77.5 per cent of responding senior house officers were responsible for consenting, reduced from 92.5 per cent in 2002 (p = 0.06). There had been a significant improvement in the use of patient information sheets, from 25 per cent of departments in 2002 to 65 per cent in 2008 (p = 0.0002). There had been no improvement in training or in the use of standard National Health Service consent forms, and the senior house officers' knowledge of specific complications remained poor. Of the senior house officers surveyed, 37.5 per cent were foundation trainees.Conclusions:There has been some improvement in information delivery to patients during the consent process, in accordance with General Medical Council, Department of Health and Modernising Medical Careers guidelines. However, most senior house officers are still required to obtain patient consent without appropriate training.

Voluntary Erasure

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kenneth Hamer
Keyword(s):  
Judicial Review ◽  
Medical Practitioner ◽  
General Medical Council ◽  
Medical Council ◽  
Professional Conduct ◽  
Professional Misconduct

The claimant was a retired medical practitioner and sought judicial review to challenge the decision of the Professional Conduct Committee (PCC) of the General Medical Council (GMC) in the course of a preliminary hearing to refuse his application for voluntary erasure from the medical register. Had he been allowed to erase his name voluntarily, the proceedings would have been stayed. The complaint against the claimant related to five patients during his performance as a doctor. It was alleged that the claimant made specific and individual errors, and that the standards of his work were so low, and the errors so gross, that they amounted to serious professional misconduct.

scholarly journals A model of training for consultancy in psychiatry

1990 ◽  
Vol 14 (9) ◽  
pp. 543-548
Author(s):  
Ikechukwu Obialo Azuonye
Keyword(s):  
Medical Profession ◽  
General Medical Council ◽  
Diagnosis And Treatment ◽  
Independent Practice ◽  
Medical Council ◽  
Professional Conduct ◽  
Doctor Who ◽  
Clinical Area ◽  
Important Respect ◽  
Full Participation

In the medical profession a consultant is a doctor who has attained the capacity for totally independent practice, otherwise known as clinical freedom. Consultants differ from other doctors in the important respect that they have full clinical responsibility (BMA, 1984). The work of the consultant may be audited by his peers, with his full participation, but may not be supervised by one (DoH, 1989a). Thus, whereas the consultant is accountable, administratively, to his employers, in the clinical area, he is not accountable to any other doctors or managers: he is accountable to the General Medical Council for his professional conduct, and, with respect to the diagnosis and treatment of illness, to the patients directly, the patients' relatives, and the law of the land.

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