House of Commons - 2012 accountability hearing with the General Medical Council

Health Committee - Fourth Report
2012 accountability hearing with the General Medical Council

Here you can browse the report together with the Proceedings of the Committee. The published report was ordered by the House of Commons to be printed 28 November 2012.

Contents

Terms of Reference

Summary

1 Introduction

The role and functions of the General Medical Council

Health Committee accountability hearings

The Law Commission's consultation on regulation of healthcare professionals

2 Revalidation of doctors and remediation of practice

Scrutiny of revalidation

Progress on revalidation

Implementation of revalidation

Revalidation and doctors

Remediation

Consistency in revalidation

Language competence of licensed doctors

Revalidation and patients

3 Professional leadership

GMC leadership activity in 2011-12

4 Professional regulation

Trends in complaints against doctors

Fitness to practise investigations

Proposals for procedural change

Completion of fitness to practise cases

The Medical Practitioner Tribunal Service

Right of appeal against MPTS decisions

Conclusions and recommendations

Formal Minutes

Witnesses

List of printed written evidence

List of unprinted evidence

List of Reports from the Committee during the current Parliament

Oral and written evidence
Tuesday 4 September 2012: Professor Sir Peter Rubin, Chair of Council, Niall Dickson, Chief Executive and Registrar, Una Lane, Director, Continued Practice and Revalidation, and His Honour David Pearl, Chair, Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service, the General Medical Council.

Written Evidence