Consultation toolkit

We would like to encourage a broad range of people to get involved in the consultation, including doctors, patient and public representative groups, witnesses and complainants.  With this in mind, we have produced a consultation toolkit which is designed to help you organise your own discussion about the proposals and respond to the consultation.

The resources are free to download and make use of.

Discussion guides

We have created a discussion guide and discussion topics tailored for doctor and public and patient representative organisations.  These resources are intended to help you organise your own group discussions about the consultation proposals.

• Discussion guide (English version) (pdf, 295kb)
• Discussion guide (Welsh version) (pdf, 273kb)
  This gives useful tips on how to organise a discussion group.
  
• Discussion topics for doctors (English version) (pdf, 404kb)
• Discussion topics for doctors (Welsh version) (pdf, 248kb)
  This provides a brief overview of discussion topics for doctors.
  
• Discussion topics for public and patient representatives (English version) (pdf, 447kb)
• Discussion topics for public and patient representatives (Welsh version) (pdf, 199kb)
  This provides a brief overview of discussion topics for public and patient representative groups.

PowerPoint presentation

This presentation provides a plain English overview of the background to the reform of our fitness to practise procedures and the GMC's consultation proposals.  You can use this to sent the scene for a group discussion.

• Presentation: Reform of the fitness to practise procedures and the GMC (English version) (ppt, 460kb)
• Presentation: Reform of the fitness to practise procedures and the GMC (Welsh version) (ppt, 467kb)

We have also produced versions of the presentation specifically tailored to the concerns of doctors and patient and public representative groups.

• Presentation for doctors: Reform of the fitness to practise procedures at the GMC (English version) (ppt, 407kb)
• Presentation for doctors: Reform of the fitness to practise procedures at the GMC (Welsh version) (ppt, 538kb)

• Presentation for public and patient representative groups: Reform of the fitness to practise procedures at the GMC (English version) (ppt, 463kb)
• Presentation for public and patient representative groups: Reform of the fitness to practise procedures at the GMC (Welsh version) (ppt, 534kb)

Website banners

You can use these images on your website if you would like to add a link to the reform consultation pages on our website.  Please link the images to www.gmc-uk.org/ftpreformconsultation

• Website banner image (Low-resolution, 340 x 120 pixels - landscape) (jpg, 60kb)  
• Website banner image (Low-resolution, 200 x 200 pixels - portrait) (jpg, 61kb) 

Consultation events

We are running a series of public events, to encourage people to get involved in the consultation, including round-table workshops and webinars.

The workshops will be held at our offices in London and Manchester.  These will be hosted by our Assistant Director for Policy and Planning, Anna Rowland.

Alternatively, you can discuss the proposals with us via a webinar.  A webinar is an interactive online debate which will be hosted by our Assistant Director for Policy and Planning, Anna Rowland.  You can join in from your home or place of work, using your own telephone and computer with internet access.

Schedule

Workshops	Target Audience	Date
Manchester	Patients	Thursday 3 March 10.30am - 3.30pm
London	Patients	Tuesday 8 March 12pm - 4.15pm
Webinars
Webinar	Patients	Friday 25 February 3pm - 4pm
Webinar	Doctors & medical students	Friday 8 April 4.30pm - 5.30pm

If you would like to register to participate in one of the webinars, please email webmaster@gmc-uk.org and we will send you details of how to log-in.

If you would like to register to attend one of our face-to-face workshops in London or Manchester, please email ftpconsultation@gmc-uk.org.

Contact us

If you have any feedback on the consultation toolkit, or would like further information about future events, please email: ftpconsultation@gmc-uk.org