Developing, implementing and administering questionnaires

We have developed guidance to help those involved in commissioning, developing and administering colleague and patient questionnaires for the purposes of appraisal and revalidation.

This guidance is to help employers and Responsible Officers feel confident about choosing questionnaires and have confidence in the questionnaires that they do choose. The GMC is not prescribing or approving questionnaires for use in revalidation.

You can download the guidance here.

The guidance includes three separate checklists for:

• The development of questionnaires - this checklist is intended to support those who are developing questionnaires, as well as providing information about best practice for those looking to commission questionnaires, such as Responsible Officers.
• The administration of questionnaires - this checklist is for organisations who administer questionnaires. In most cases this will be an independent questionnaire company, but in some cases this might be an employing organisation.
• The implementation of questionnaires - this checklist is for employers and Responsible Officers implementing processes for gathering colleague and patient feedback in their workplace.