FAQs - Doctors who do not revalidate
Last updated: 1 March 2010
Questions on this page
- 1. What will be the consequences for my revalidation if there are concerns about my standard of practice?
- 2. What happens if I do not provide any information to support my revalidation?
More information can be found on our revalidation page.
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1. What will be the consequence for my revalidation if there are concerns about my standard of practice?
We expect that the vast majority of doctors will have no difficulty meeting the standards for revalidation.
Where there are concerns about any aspect of your practice, these should be identified early and, where possible, addressed through appraisal and relevant local clinical governance processes. The identification of, and action on, concerns should not wait until you are due to be revalidated.
If, by the time a doctor comes to revalidate, there remain significant concerns about a doctor's fitness to practice which are so serious that the doctor cannot be recommended by the Responsible Officer for revalidation, the doctor would be referred into the GMC's fitness to practice procedures for investigation.
The GMC has a range of powers under its fitness to practise procedures. These include no action (in which case the doctor would be revalidated), a warning, conditions on registration, suspension from the register and erasure from the register.
2. What happens if I do not provide any information to support my revalidation?
If you wish to keep your licence to practise, you must participate in revalidation. If you do not, you run the risk of having your licence to practise withdrawn.