Continued Practice, Revalidation and Registration Board

As of 17 February 2011, the Continued Practice Board was superseded by the Continued Practice, Revalidation and Registration Board.

Contents

• Agendas and papers
• The purpose of the Continued Practice, Revalidation and Registration Board
• Duties and activities
• Meeting dates
• Membership

Agendas and papers

2012

• February

2011

• November
• September
• July
• May
• January

2010

• November
• July
• May
• February

2009

• December
• September
• April

The purpose of the Continued Practice, Revalidation and Registration Board

The purpose of the Continued Practice, Revalidation and Registration Board is to enhance our ability to protect, promote and maintain the health and safety of the public by co-ordinating our four regulatory functions as they apply to the continued practice of established doctors not in training programmes (whether pre or post CCT) ensuring that they remain up to date and fit to practise, and to support Council and the Registrar in discharging their functions in relation to the registration of doctors, the maintenance of the registers, and the issuing of licences to practise.

Duties and activities

• Advise Council on matters relating to the continued practice of doctors (including revalidation) in the light of Council's statutory purpose to protect, promote and maintain the health and safety of the public by ensuring proper standards in the practice of medicine.
• Advise on how the provisions of Good Medical Practice can best be implemented in the context of the continued practice of doctors.
• Engage widely and effectively with our key interest groups, patients and the public, doctors, the departments of health in the four countries of the UK, the NHS and other healthcare providers, and medical schools and medical Royal Colleges, to ensure we are able to best develop and promote a strategic approach to continued practice of doctors.
• Take forward joint development work in a number of areas including revalidation and certification, and quality assurance, working with the Postgraduate and Undergraduate Boards.
• Liaise closely with the UK Revalidation Programme Board over the implementation of revalidation for doctors.
• Contribute to embedding equality and diversity considerations across all areas of its work, recognising the risk of issues emerging as a result of the implementation of revalidation.
• Advise Council on the maintenance of a policy framework securing a single standard for registration which doctors can reach by different routes.
• Keep under review the statutory framework governing registration (and, in future, licences to practise), making proposals for amendment where necessary.
• Advise Council on issues to do with the fitness for purpose of the registers, their content and publication, and access to them.
• Advise Council on the policy framework that the Registrar will apply to determine which qualifications are acceptable overseas qualifications for the purposes of registration. 
• Monitor the guidance from Council which the Registrar must take into account in determining individual applications for registration.
• Oversee the Professional and Linguistic Assessments Board.
• Develop an equality and diversity plan for its area of responsibility, for scrutiny by the Equality and Diversity Committee.

Meeting dates

The dates for meetings of the Continued Practice, Revalidation and Registration Board are provided in the meeting schedule.

Membership

Membership of the Continued Practice, Revalidation and Registration Board is provided in the governance membership section.