Doctors’ Annual Assessments
23 July, 2008
Chief medical officer Sir Liam Neeson will be announcing plans for annual revalidation assessments for doctors in the UK. This is great news.
Firstly, I can hang my assessment certificate on my consulting room wall and tell my patients that I’ve passed the grade and as such I’m officially re-licenced to tell them to get on their bikes and find a job instead of sponging off the state and wasting my time.
Secondly, I will need time off to prepare for these assessments and then even more time off to sit the exams or attend the interviews. It means lots of time away from patients. Oh what a shame.
Thirdly and most importantly, they’ll need a helluva lot of doctors to do the actual assessments. I’m just thinking that if the money is right then I’ll be right onto that gravy train. So, half my time will be spent preparing for my annual assessment and the other half of my time will be spent assessing other docs.
Patients will have to wait. Just have to get the receptionists to get their story right though-
“Sorry, all the doctors are busy with assessments. Next appointment is in 2012.”
It’s a price worth paying for weeding out the next Shipman.
Entry Filed under: Work. Tags: BMA, doctors, family doctors, GPs, Liam Donaldson, patients, revalidation, Shipman.
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David Walter Davies | 23 July, 2008 at 2:27 pm
One thought that GP were already subject to an assesment regime.
Howwrong and naieve to think that way.About time that GPs are subject to checks;some weeding out of the system is clearly required.
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Jokalew | 23 July, 2008 at 2:44 pm
Scottish GPs do have to undergo an annual appraisal. See-
http://www.scottishappraisal.scot.nhs.uk/
* “some weeding out of the system is clearly required.” Just as long as I’m the gardener and not the dandelion.
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SD Hamilton | 23 July, 2008 at 2:53 pm
gps are still independant its time they were made employees of the nhs and given contracts that includes NIGHT AND WEEKEND work like everybody else
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scottthedot | 23 July, 2008 at 3:50 pm
I wouldn’t expect people who are paid £80K a year to work THAT hard.