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Features: The GMC’s plans in 2009

26 January 2009

Read the highlights from the GMC's Business Plan for the new year.

Every year, in our annual Business Plan, we publish the programme of activities we will deliver that year. As well as our ongoing activities in registration, standards, education and fitness to practise, in 2009 we will:

• Introduce the licence to practise and develop and consult on guidance showing how revalidation will work.
• Update and reissue our advice to doctors on standards and ethics guidance, focusing on end of life care, confidentiality and research.
• Engage widely and effectively with our key interest groups in the development of our guidance on standards and in medical education and training.
• Consult on and publish a fully revised edition of  Tomorrow’s Doctors, setting out the standards, knowledge, skills and behaviours required of medical graduates and the standards required of UK medical schools.
• Put in place all necessary preparatory work to establish a single continuum for all stages of medical education and training, in order to realise and optimise the benefits envisaged by the merger of PMETB with the GMC.
• Deal firmly and fairly with all fitness to practise concerns raised about individual doctors.
• Make all necessary preparations for the establishment of the independent Office of Health Professions Adjudicator.
• Set out, as part of our longer-term strategic plan, a programme of priority issues and areas for research to inform medical regulation.
• Ensure that our equality and diversity strategy supports us in delivering independent, accountable regulation that promotes fairness and equality and values diversity.
• Engage widely, effectively and systematically with our key interests in England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales.

Our budget plans for the year are set out below.

Improving our efficiency

Enhancing the economy, efficiency and  effectiveness of all the work we do is of central importance. We recognise that this needs to be balanced against the progress we seek to make through the  challenging work programme set out in our Business Plan and the work we foresee in the current Council’s term of office.

We define economy as reducing the costs of acquisitions of the various resources we need; efficiency as increasing output from the same input resources; and effectiveness as the extent to which the outcomes match the aims and objectives of the organisation.

In 2009 we will:

• Reduce the cost of legal services by www.gmc-uk.org £1.2m through the continued development of our in-house legal team.
• Achieve a £750,000 saving in the procurement of goods and services through supply chain management and competitive  tendering.
• Complete the third phase of the Strategic Applications Project, introducing state of the art finance, procurement and human resource management  systems.
• Implement a pay and reward system based on a competence and performance standards framework.
• Enhance the functionality and accessibility of our  website.
• Move our staff in Manchester to suitable long-term accommodation, improving both their working environment and ability to work collaboratively.

You  can find out more about what we do each year at www.gmc-uk.org.