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Medical Licensing Assessment (MLA)
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PLAB test blueprint
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Revalidation
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A framework for tracking revalidation
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Coronavirus (COVID-19) – update on revalidation for doctors and changes to the notice period
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Switching to paperless revalidation notices
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How do we check doctors are giving good care?
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What is revalidation?
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Find your connection for revalidation
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Have an annual whole practice appraisal
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Guidance on supporting information for appraisal and revalidation
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About this guidance on appraisal and revalidation -
Supporting information for appraisal and revalidation -
Meeting our revalidation requirements: overarching principles -
Essential information to help you meet our revalidation requirements -
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Your supporting information – continuing professional development -
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The revalidation process
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Connecting to a suitable person
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Appraisals and annual returns for doctors without a responsible officer or suitable person
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The revalidation assessment and GMC decision-making process for doctors without a responsible officer or approved suitable person
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Connection information for doctors in training
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Revalidation requirements for doctors in training
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Your revalidation
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Annexes
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Becoming and acting as a suitable person
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Revalidation resources
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Prescribing valproate in primary care: how to demonstrate quality improvement -
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How can I demonstrate quality improvement when undertaking a new or rare procedure in my independent sector practice? -
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What supporting information should I present at appraisal in relation to quality improvement across my whole practice? -
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DC13320 - Making patient feedback work for doctors and patients -
Making the feedback process work for patients living with dementia and mental health illness -
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How can I meet appraisal requirements if I don't have patient contact? -
How can I get enough patient feedback when I work in short term posts? -
Can I collect feedback from clients instead of patients? -
How can I collect feedback when my patients are too young to respond? -
I see patients briefly in challenging circumstances. How can I collect feedback? -
How can I collect patient feedback when I work in a managerial role and don’t see patients? -
Do I need to get patient feedback from all the different roles I hold? -
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How can I collect patient feedback when I don’t work for any GP service on a regular basis? -
Quality assurance from a lay perspective: Milton Keynes University Hospital Revalidation Committee -
Designing revalidation processes using lay expertise: Nottingham University Hospitals MARAG -
Revalidation tips for doctors leaving UK training or new to UK practice -
Revalidation and the later stages of your career -
Revalidation and fitness to practise -
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Guidance for revalidation decision makers -
Monitoring and evaluating revalidation -
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Collecting colleague and patient feedback for revalidation -
Guidance on developing and implementing formal patient feedback tools -
Guidance on colleague feedback questionnaires
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Welcome to the specialist and GP register
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A doctor’s guide to GMC Online
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GMC Connect
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Information for employers and other organisations
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Employing a doctor
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Supporting doctors through a specialist application (CESR/CEGPR)
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Effective clinical governance for the medical profession
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About this handbook
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Roles and responsibilities in clinical governance
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Clinical governance for doctors
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About the principles
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Principle 1 – Organisations create an environment which delivers effective clinical governance for doctors
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Principle 2 – Clinical governance processes for doctors are managed and monitored with a view to continuous improvement
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Principle 3 – Safeguards are in place to make sure clinical governance processes for doctors are fair and free from discrimination and bias
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Principle 4 – Organisations deliver processes required to support medical revalidation and the evaluation of doctors’ fitness to practise
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Additional resources
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The PLAB test
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Ethical guidance
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Ethical guidance
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Good medical practice
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0–18 years: guidance for all doctors
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0-18 years - guidance for all doctors
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Assessing best interests
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Communication
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Making decisions
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Principles of confidentiality
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Accessing medical records by children/young people/parents
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Child protection
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Sexual activity
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Contraception, abortion and sexually transmitted infections (STIs)
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Suitability to work with children and young people
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Complaints
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Prescribing medicines
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Legislation and case law
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Acting as a witness in legal proceedings
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Openness and honesty when things go wrong: The professional duty of candour
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Confidentiality: good practice in handling patient information
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About our Confidentiality guidance
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Ethical and legal duties of confidentiality
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The main principles of this guidance
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Disclosing patients' personal information: a framework
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Using and disclosing patient information for direct care
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Disclosures for the protection of patients and others
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Using and disclosing patient information for secondary purposes
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Managing and protecting personal information
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Legal annex
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Confidentiality: disclosing for education and training purposes
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Confidentiality: disclosing information about serious communicable diseases
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Confidentiality: disclosing information for employment, insurance and similar purposes
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Confidentiality: patients' fitness to drive and reporting concerns to the DVLA or DVA
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Confidentiality: reporting gunshot and knife wounds
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Confidentiality: responding to criticism in the media
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Consent to research (summary)
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Guidance for doctors who offer cosmetic interventions
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Decision making and consent
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About our Decision making and consent guidance
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How to use this guidance
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The seven principles of decision making and consent
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The scope of this guidance
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Taking a proportionate approach
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The dialogue leading to a decision
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The dialogue leading to a decision continued
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The dialogue leading to a decision continued
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The dialogue leading to a decision continued
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Recording decisions
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Reviewing decisions
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Circumstances that affect the decision-making process
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Circumstances that affect the decision-making process continued
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Circumstances that affect the decision-making process continued
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Circumstances that affect the decision-making process continued
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Delegation and referral (summary)
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Doctors' use of social media (summary)
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Ending your professional relationship with a patient (summary)
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Financial and commercial arrangements and conflicts of interest (summary)
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Good practice in prescribing and managing medicines and devices
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About this guidance
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Keeping up to date and prescribing safely
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Deciding if it is safe to prescribe
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Controlled drugs and other medicines where additional safeguards are needed
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Shared care
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Raising concerns
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Reporting adverse drug reactions medical device incidents and other patient safety incidents
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Reviewing medicines
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Repeat prescribing and prescribing with repeats
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Prescribing unlicensed medicines
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Sports medicine
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Good practice in research (summary)
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Intimate examinations and chaperones (summary)
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Leadership and management for all doctors
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Maintaining a professional boundary between you and your patient (summary)
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Making and using visual and audio recordings of patients (summary)
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Making and using visual and audio recordings of patients
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About our Making and using recordings guidance
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Principles
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Recordings made as part of a patients care, including investigation or treatment of a condition
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Recordings made for research teaching training and other healthcare related purposes
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Recordings for use in widely accessible public media – television radio internet print
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Deceased patients
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Making recordings covertly
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Recording telephone calls
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Storing and disposing of recordings
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Personal beliefs and medical practice
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Protecting children and young people: The responsibilities of all doctors
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About our Protecting children and young people guidance
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Principles for protecting children and young people
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Identifying those at risk of, or suffering, abuse or neglect
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Communication and support
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Working in partnership
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Confidentiality and sharing information
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Keeping records
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Child protection examinations
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Training and development
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Doctors giving evidence in court
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Appendix 2 - Assessing best interests
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Definitions of children, young people and parents
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Raising and acting on concerns about patient safety
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Reporting criminal and regulatory proceedings within and outside the UK
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Sexual behaviour and your duty to report colleagues
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Treatment and care towards the end of life: good practice in decision making
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About our Treatment and care towards the end of life guidance
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Guidance: Treatment and care towards the end of life
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Principles
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Decision-making models
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Working with the principles and decision-making models
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Working with the principles and decision-making models - cont.
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Working with the principles and decision-making models - cont.
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Neonates, children and young people
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Meeting patients' nutrition and hydration needs
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Clinically assisted nutrition and hydration
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Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR)
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Legal annex
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Glossary of terms
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When a patient seeks advice or information about assistance to die
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Writing references
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Ethical guidance for anaesthesia associates and physician associates
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Archived ethical guidance
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Ethical hub
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Learning materials
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Case study on responding to racism from a patient's carer
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Discussing the risks of sodium valproate
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Confidentiality decision tool
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Case study on freedom to speak up
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Consensual relationship impacting team opportunities
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Discrimination and misconduct by clinical supervisor
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Power imbalance in clinical placement
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Prescribing for patients overseas
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Prescribing without access to patient records
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Five key points on providing inclusive care to transgender and gender diverse patients
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Relationship with former patient
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Suitability of mode of consultation
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Good medical practice in action
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Child protection decision tool
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Disagreement with an occupational health report
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Disclosing medical records after death
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Sharing information with family members
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Remote prescribing high level principles
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Information for doctors on Cannabis-based products for medicinal use (CBPMs)
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A colleague’s behaviour
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Five things to know about our Confidentiality guidance and the GDPR
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Talking about end of life care: clinically assisted nutrition and hydration
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Explaining risks and seeking informed consent
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Sharing information about a patient’s HIV status
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Raising a concern about a colleague’s possible drug addiction
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CANH for doctors and healthcare colleagues including senior hospital management
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CANH for patients and families
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Raising and acting on concerns flowchart
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What is mental capacity?
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Questions about our cosmetic interventions guidance
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Whistleblowing
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Trans health
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Remote consultations flowchart
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Capacity to manage care - part 1
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Older adults
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Making decisions together: the implications of the Montgomery judgment
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A colleague’s underperformance
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Reasonable adjustments
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Disclosure to the police
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Discussing the risks of further cosmetic surgery
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Communication in end of life care
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End of life care and clinically assisted nutrition and hydration in an older person
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Involving other professionals
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Attitudes and assumptions
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Competing interests and incentives
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Talking mats
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Declaring a conflict of interest
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Laser eye surgery and time-limited offers
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Payment of fees
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Making referrals to a colleague
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Patient safety and putting matters right
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NHS referral to private treatment
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Identifying and acting on patient safety concerns
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Working with carers
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Capacity to consent to treatment and care in an older person
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Local incident reporting arrangements
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Prescription direction
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Confidentiality and potential abuse of an older adult
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What do patients think?
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A parent’s lifestyle choice – part one
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Reporting near misses
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Supporting patients to make decisions about their care at the end of life
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Supporting patients to make decisions about their care
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Raising concerns with the right person
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Missed diagnosis
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Radiologist error
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Raising concerns about the ratio of trainees
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Culture and religion
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Escalating concerns
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Escalating concerns to a higher level
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Disclosure when a patient has a serious communicable disease
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Making decisions when a patient lacks capacity
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Escalating patient safety concerns
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Reporting a crime
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Concerns about a sex offender
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Raising a concern with a regulator
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The legal protections
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Parent refuses consent – part one
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Parent refuses consent – part two
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Parent refuses consent – part three
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Disclosing information for financial audit purposes
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Disclosing information for tax purposes
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Disclosure for local clinical audit
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Parental responsibility and the child’s best interest
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Using patient information for research purposes
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Protecting children from neglect or abuse
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Sharing information when a patient has a stab wound
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Escalating concerns within your organisation
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Disclosure when there is suspected domestic abuse
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Listening to concerns from the patients’ family
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A colleague's fitness to practise
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Sharing information with non-clinical staff involved in the direct care of a patient
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Should a doctor disclose evidence of abuse without the patient’s consent?
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'Challenging' behaviour is a form of communication
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Caring for a patient who has made an advance decision to refuse treatment
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Assessing capacity in a patient with a learning disability
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Reporting incidents and raising concerns
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Routine local incident reporting arrangements
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Disclosure when there is known domestic abuse
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Assessing the capacity of a young person when they are facing a terminal illness
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Patients document archive
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WtUKP – did you get it right?
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Good medical practice review
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Education
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Education standards, guidance and curricula
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Standards and outcomes
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Guidance
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Continuing professional development
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Designing and maintaining postgraduate assessment programmes
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Equality and diversity guidance for curricula and assessment systems
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Generic professional capabilities: guidance on implementation
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Guide to evaluating interventions (differential attainment)
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National professional examinations
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Programme and site approvals
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Promoting excellence: equality and diversity considerations
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Reflective practice learning materials
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The reflective practitioner - guidance for doctors and medical students -
The reflective practitioner - workshop -
The reflective practitioner - a guide for medical students -
Self-learning: The reflective practitioner -
Reflective discussion with appraiser -
Supporting reflection -
Being a doctor and staying a person -
Reflecting on an experience: breaking bad news -
Reflecting on an experience: CPR conversation -
Reflecting on an experience: recording of mental capacity audit -
Schwartz Rounds -
Benefits of becoming a reflective practitioner
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Religious and personal beliefs
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Religious and personal beliefs
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Shape of training review
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Student professionalism and fitness to practise
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Achieving good medical practice: guidance for medical students -
Achieving good medical practice: interim guidance for PA and AA students -
Good practice: examples submitted by medical educators -
Private life and social media -
Professional behaviour and fitness to practise -
Professional behaviours and fitness to practise: interim guidance for PA course providers and students -
Professionalism in teaching -
Guidance for medical students on protected cautions, convictions and fixed penalty notices -
Medical student professionalism competition -
Student scenarios -
Working with others -
Thought pieces -
Myths and questions about professionalism and fitness to practise
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Supporting students with mental health conditions
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Undergraduate clinical placements
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Welcomed and valued
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Health and disability in medicine -
Our involvement as a professional regulator -
What is expected of medical education organisations and employers? -
How can medical schools apply their duties? -
Transition from medical school to Foundation training -
How can postgraduate training organisations apply their duties? -
Disabled doctors exist: celebrating their contribution to medicine -
How disability is viewed by patients, colleagues and educators -
Supporting the individual: reasonable adjustments and flexibility -
Moving through education - support at transition points -
A culture of support - what general initiatives are needed -
Welcomed and valued resources -
Able medics podcast -
Adapting practice, individualised support and sharing information -
Being disabled goes against the doctor stereotype -
Being proactive and planning for reasonable adjustments -
Different support is needed in different training settings -
Dyslexia support in medical training -
Lack of continuity in support after graduation -
Making the case for support in a complex system -
Misunderstandings around disability and reasonable adjustments -
Moving through training with a long term health condition -
Moving through training with a mental health condition -
Recognising the benefits that disabled doctors bring to a team -
Securing reasonable adjustments when always moving on -
Supporting doctors with fluctuating chronic conditions -
The benefits of an open and respectful team -
The importance of flexible and anticipated adjustments -
The importance of good occupational health support -
Using my experience as a vulnerable patient to become a better doctor -
Examples of reasonable adjustments
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Appendix - useful resources
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Out of programme (OOP)
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Position statements
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Statement on continued derogations in medical education and training
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Absences from training in the Foundation Programme
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Approval of foundation programme training and new programmes for provisionally registered doctors outside the UK
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Normalising research – Promoting research for all doctors
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First do no harm: enhancing patient safety teaching in undergraduate medical education
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UK medical education delivered outside the UK
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Improving the national consistency and approval of sub-specialty training programmes
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Less than full time training
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Transition of learners to a new curriculum
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National training numbers appendix
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Oral and maxilofacial surgery
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Recognising and approving trainers: the implementation plan
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Time out of training
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Projects
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GMC approved postgraduate curricula
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Derogations from approved curricula
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Acute care common stem
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Acute internal medicine curriculum
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Allergy curriculum
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Anaesthetics curriculum
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Audio vestibular medicine curriculum
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Aviation and space medicine curriculum
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Broad based training (BBT)
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Cardiology curriculum
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Cardio-thoracic surgery curriculum
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Chemical pathology curriculum
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Child and adolescent psychiatry curriculum
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Child mental health curriculum
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Clinical genetics curriculum
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Clinical neurophysiology curriculum
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Clinical oncology curriculum
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Clinical pharmacology and therapeutics curriculum
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Clinical radiology curriculum
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Community child health curriculum
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Community sexual and reproductive health curriculum
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Congenital cardiac surgery curriculum
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GMC changes prompt fall in medical student fitness to practise declarations
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Expecting GPs to plug workforce gaps risks 'killing primary care model', warns GMC Chief Executive
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The role of the regulator in building a sustainable workforce
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GMC training survey shines fresh spotlight on discrimination
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Unlocking the potential of the SAS workforce
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Enhanced ED&I data on the progression of UK doctors in training
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GMC welcomes important step towards bringing anaesthesia associates and physician associates into regulation
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GMC to act on fairness review recommendations
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GMC to roll out personalised contact when starting investigations
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A message to the profession by GMC Chair Professor Dame Carrie MacEwen
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PSA review concludes the GMC continues to maintain high Standards of Good Regulation
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Leicester medical students win national competition on social media safety
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Migration and the medical workforce
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NHS backlogs threaten doctors as well as patients, GMC warns
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Common questions: regulating physician associates and anaesthesia associates
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GMC Chief Executive welcomes BMA report
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Making it better for trainees
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No place for sexual misconduct in UK healthcare
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Tackling teamwork problems earns medical students top prize
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Doctors’ burnout worsens as GMC report reveals pandemic impact
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Remembering Professor Peter Kopelman
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Dame Clare Marx to step down from General Medical Council
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COVID response helped graduates prepare for careers in medicine, report finds
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MLA update: approval for a university-led applied knowledge test
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New Covid-secure assessment centre opens in Manchester for overseas doctors
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Widening access to clinical research
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GMC targets elimination of disproportionate complaints and training inequalities
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Cardiff students win UK prize for second year running
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European doctor numbers grow steadily amid Brexit transition
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Charlie Massey GMC Conference keynote speech 2 December 2020
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Medical training evolution required to meet patient needs
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Dame Clare Marx GMC Conference keynote speech 30 November 2020
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Changes to support trainees continue into 2021
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Pandemic should be a catalyst for change in UK healthcare, says GMC Chair
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Dame Clare Marx: Leaders in Healthcare speech
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Joint statement: Supporting doctors throughout the second COVID-19 wave
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GMC to create temporary test centre to assess thousands of doctors
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PLAB tests continue with safety rules during lockdown
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GMC reschedules further revalidation dates
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COVID disruption hits training for eight in ten doctors GMC surveys shows
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Shared decision making is key to good patient care - GMC guidance
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COVID-19 specific guidance published for doctor complaints
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Shaun Gallagher appointed as new Director of Strategy and Policy
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GMC welcomes decision to lift cap on medical school places
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GMC clarifies no role in medical education places
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A welcome to new doctors from Prof Colin Melville
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GMC and MSC welcome agreement on Medical Licensing Assessment delivery model
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Doctors urged to have their say on workplace training during coronavirus
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Doctors' workshops go online as the GMC responds to pandemic restrictions
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GMC response to the Independent Medicines and Medical Devices Safety Review
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General Medical Council sets out plans for restart of medical tests and fitness to practise work
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GMC launches Council member recruitment
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GMC statement on ethnically diverse medical school teaching materials
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Dame Clare Marx’s message to the profession
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COVID 19 – GMC confirms revalidation date changes
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Joint statement on death certification during the COVID-19 pandemic
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GMC Chair pays tribute to doctors who have died fighting COVID-19
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Changes to the abortion law in Northern Ireland - information for doctors
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Statement on advance care planning during the COVID-19 pandemic, including do not attempt cardiopulmonary resuscitation (DNACPR)
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Joint statement: Community-based prescribing for COVID-19 symptoms
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Welcome to the profession – a message to final year medical students from Dame Clare Marx
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GMC asked to register further groups of doctors
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COVID-19 – GMC grants temporary registration to 11,800 doctors
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Joint statement: early provisional registration for final year medical students
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Doctors will stop at nothing to provide care in this crisis – our job is to support them
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Exams for doctors in training – Academy of Medical Royal Colleges, COPMeD and GMC statement
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Coronavirus – GMC writes to doctors who may be asked to help
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Supporting the COVID-19 response: Plans for management of medical training rotations
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PSA report highlights good regulation in 2018/19
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Overseas doctors sit UK exam in Belfast for first time
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Joint statement: Supporting doctors in the event of a COVID-19 epidemic in the UK
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Supporting the COVID-19 response: Guidance regarding medical education and training
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How we will continue to regulate in light of novel coronavirus (COVID-19)
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Regulation overhaul urgently needed, says GMC Chief Executive
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Charlie Massey at Westminster Health Forum
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NHS 2019 Staff Survey
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GMC responds to DHSC flexible medical education announcement
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Two new Council members appointed by GMC
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GMC responds to Paterson Inquiry findings
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Registration status of European doctors won't change after Brexit
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New-look online register improves accessibility
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Updating patients on neurology concerns in Northern Ireland
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Unfair treatment affecting many SAS and LE doctors, GMC survey
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Doctors’ career choices a ‘new reality’ which health services cannot ignore
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Doctors’ registration fees to rise by maximum of £7
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Doctors' engagement in MPTS hearing process most closely linked to decisions, study shows
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GMC responds to concerns in maternity services at Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust
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Our commitment to patients who raise a concern about a doctor
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Acting on wellbeing solutions could make UK health services a model for the world
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Principles for good practice issued to protect patients online
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Attracting supporting and retaining doctors a must to meet healthcare challenges
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GMC responds to BMA sexism report
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How our guidance applies to doctors taking part in protests
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Plans agreed to retain trainee doctors in Weston emergency department
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GMC supports calls to recognise GPs as specialists
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Healthcare leaders need support to ensure good patient care report says
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First overseas doctors set to use new Manchester test centre
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GMC to regulate two new associates roles
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Government responds to consultation on reforming regulation
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Doctors do not know where to turn for advice on their wellbeing, GMC survey shows
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Valuable prize up for grabs for medical students
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GMC meets PSA standards for good regulation
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Regulators unite to support reflective practitioners across healthcare
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GMC confirms 3,000 Commonwealth route doctors have genuine degrees
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GMC statement following the publication of the independent review of gross negligence manslaughter and culpable homicide in medical practice
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Virtual reality helps new recruits prepare for move to England
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GMC welcomes Interim People Plan for England
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North East hospitals praised in GMC report
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Disabled doctors to get increased support thanks to new GMC guidance
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GMC statement regarding Dame Denise Coia and the review of mental health and wellbeing in the medical profession
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Medical register reaches 300,000 for the first time
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First GMC survey of SAS doctors opens
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GMC asks doctors for views on getting effective feedback from patients
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Fewer full GMC investigations after pilot scheme success
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GMC clarifies expectations of newly qualified doctors
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GMC supports anti-bullying guide for health leaders
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Relevant European qualifications to be recognised post-Brexit
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Check insurance and indemnity cover, GMC tells doctors
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Doctors to receive training support to call out unprofessionalism
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The GMC asks doctors for diversity data to help ensure fair regulation
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GMC to ask SAS doctors about workplace experiences for the first time
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Measuring the impact of our corporate strategy
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Medical student wins UK competition with 'Trip Advisor' approach
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General Medical Council appoints medical education expert to new post
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Right to appeal
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Doctors’ registration fees to rise by maximum of £9
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UK-wide workforce planning needed to avert NHS staffing crisis, says GMC
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Workplace warning signs must be heeded to protect training, GMC says
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Update on the case of Zholia Alemi
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Remembering Sir Donald Irvine
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Zholia Alemi – information for patients
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Statement on Zholia Alemi
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Two new Council members appointed by GMC
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Updated handbook on effective clinical governance for doctors
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Team reflection key to a learning culture says GMC Chair
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Under-pressure doctors need time for patients, says GMC
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GMC publishes Wessex region review
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Clarity needed for European doctors post-Brexit, GMC warns
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GMC welcomes regulation of new roles
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Human Factors training to be rolled out for investigators
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GMC welcomes High Court clarity on Avastin use
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Consultation on support for disabled doctors closing
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New guidance to help you with reflection
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Enhanced monitoring update - August 2018
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Statement on Court of Appeal’s judgment on the Bawa-Garba case
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Health regulators launch new protocol to address emerging concerns
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New Chair of the General Medical Council
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GMC publishes its strategy on equality and fairness
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Burnt out doctors feel exhausted before they start a shift - GMC survey shows
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GMC says disabled doctors need support to fulfil their potential
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GMC launches Council member recruitment
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GMC response to the Gosport Independent Panel report
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GMC signs up to joint approach to addressing concerns raised by doctors
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Failure to protect doctors reflections a missed opportunity
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Marx medical manslaughter review invites written evidence
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Reviewing medical manslaughter laws
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The new data protection law is in effect
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GMC announces working group to lead medical manslaughter review
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Organisations to collaborate on new reflective practice guidance for doctors
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GMC response to recommendations made by the Inquiry into Hyponatraemia-related deaths
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GMC announces chairs of wellbeing review
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Fitness to practise improvements made
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GMC says government must address visa issue
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GMC updates guidance to help doctors with appraisals and revalidation
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GMC statement on the publication of evaluating the regulatory impact of medical revalidation by UMbRELLA
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Doctors discuss reflective practice with GMC
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GMC statement on the Alfie Evans case
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GMC commissions new research into fitness to practise referrals
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GMC recruiting for new Chair
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GMC gears up to support extra international doctors wanting to work in the UK
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Your new GMC website is here
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Our response to the case of Dr Bawa-Garba - March 2018
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We've told the Williams Review that Doctors’ reflections should be legally protected
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Doctors reflections should be protected
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Brexit impact must be central to workforce planning
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We’ve urged workforce planners to consider the impact of Brexit on new strategy for the NHS
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GMC announces terms of reference for gross negligence manslaughter review
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Dame Clare Marx to lead medical manslaughter review
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Enhanced monitoring update - February 2018
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GMC event ensures doctors wellbeing is high on the agenda
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GMC to accept new English language qualification for non-UK doctors
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Sponsor to support workshop for doctors new to the UK
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GMC to look at the wider issues around manslaughter
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High Court judgment handed down
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Outdated and inflexible legislation stops us supporting doctors and protecting patients
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Outdated cumbersome and inflexible legislation prevents us from supporting doctors, says GMC Chief Executive
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GMC responds to new NICE guidance
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Data-sharing agreement could threaten patient confidentiality
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Guidance to doctors working under system pressure
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Professor Terence Stephenson awarded a Knighthood
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Medical profession at ‘crunch point’, GMC report finds
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GMC begins work to deliver Medical Licensing Assessment
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GMC to slash registration fees for doctors
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Regulation of medical associates will bolster workforce, says GMC
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Regulation of medical associates will bolster workforce
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Registration fees for doctors cut
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Dr Bawa-Garba hearing - GMC statement
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Medical training too reliant on doctors' goodwill, says GMC
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Planning for the future workforce
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GMC statement on less than full time training
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Doctors training experience in Northern Ireland is positive, says GMC
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GMC seeks views on skills needed by newly-qualified doctors
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Joining other regulators to give advice on conflicts of interest
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Comment on the decision to strike off Dr Ian Paterson
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New action plan to improve revalidation published
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Heavy workloads still an issue for many doctors in training
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GMC statement on removal of trainee doctors from Canterbury Urgent Care Centre
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Former Chief Executive Niall Dickson awarded CBE
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Warning not to take risks to get ‘beach body ready’
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Ian Paterson sentencing
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First High Court judgment handed down
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GMC unveils new standards to boost flexibility of doctors training
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New standards to boost flexibility of doctors’ training
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GMC extends contract for Doctor Support Service
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Revised confidentiality ethical guidance comes into effect
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Locum tax issue
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New blueprint for better medical training revealed
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Reporting concerns to the DVLA
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Response to concerns about our guidance for doctors on attempting CPR and DNACPR orders
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Enhanced monitoring at Kent and Canterbury Hospital
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Doctors in training must share their experiences of rota gaps
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GMC encourages doctors in training to use exception reports
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Oral evidence to Health Committee Brexit inquiry
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Working with AoMRC on ways to develop the medical register
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GMC consults on plans for Medical Licensing Assessment
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GP Specialist Register proposals
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New confidentiality guidance for doctors
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Enhanced Monitoring - April 2019
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Responding to the case of Dr Bawa-Garba
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GMC praises Scottish medical schools for reaching out to disadvantaged students
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Actions we’re taking to tackle the risks of bias
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PA and AA regulation
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Registration for PAs and AAs
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Bringing physician associates and anaesthesia associates into regulation
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Introducing the roles and regulation
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Education for physician and anaesthesia associates
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Assessing physician and anaesthesia associates
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Revalidation for physician associates and anaesthesia associates
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Ethical and professional standards
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Prescribing
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Fitness to practise for physician and anaesthesia associates
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Privacy and cookies
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Responsible officer hub
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News for responsible officers
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New fairness checks on our referral form
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Improving how we support witnesses
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Updates to our guidance for concerns involving low level violence and dishonesty
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Coronavirus: Our approach to fitness to practise
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Helping you get the most out of our data
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Increasing support for overseas doctors
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Changing how you receive our decisions circular
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Supporting doctors from overseas
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Keeping you connected
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Recognising workforce and system pressures in investigations
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New guidance to help you with reflection
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Taking revalidation forward
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Five things to know about GDPR
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A responsible officer’s introduction to registration and licensing
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If you've referred a doctor to the GMC
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Tudalen hafan Gymraeg
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