GMCtoday - May/June 2009 issue is published

View the latest edition of GMCtoday, our bi-monthly magazine for doctors.

In this issue:

• In his first editorial, new GMC Chair Professor Peter Rubin gives his personal thoughts on revalidation and discusses plans for chairing the GMC Council.
• We take a closer look at how the introduction of licensing in autumn 2009 will affect five doctors in different professional situations.
  In a special feature about restructuring of the NHS in Wales, we hear what the changes will mean for patients, the profession and the health service. 

Also featured:

• BBC Scotland’s Health Correspondent, Eleanor Bradford offers an insider’s guide to filming patients in the healthcare environment.
• The latest developments in the Directive on Patients’ Rights in Cross-border Healthcare.
• An update on the merger of PMETB with the GMC.
• A GP goes back to school to help the GMC assess its own assessments of doctors.
• New guidance from the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Body on counterfeit medicine is explained.
• The GMC has reviewed its supplementary guidance for doctors on good research practice and on making and using audio visual recordings of patients. A consultation will be launched soon. 

Full versions of all articles can be found at:

http://www.gmc-uk.org/publications/gmc_today/index.asp