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All the GMC's functions derive from a statutory requirement for the establishment and maintenance of a register, which is the definitive list of doctors as provisionally or fully "registered medical practitioners", within the public sector in Britain. [3] The GMC controls entry to the List of Registered Medical Practitioners ("the medical ...
e-med (e-Med Private Medical Services) is an online medical site based in the UK, staffed and owned by doctors. [1] It is notable for being the first [2] web portal to offer consultation, diagnosis, referral and prescription services [3] to remote patients via email and Skype video conferencing, and for a controversial General Medical Council case.
Sir Donald Hamilton Irvine CBE (2 June 1935 – 19 November 2018) was a British general practitioner (GP) who was president of the General Medical Council (GMC) between 1995 and 2002, during a time when there were a number of high-profile medical failure cases in the UK, including the Alder Hey organs scandal, the Bristol heart scandal and The Shipman Inquiry.
PLAB is a two part assessment that overseas doctors (or international medical graduates), from outside the European Economic Area and Switzerland, usually need to pass before they can legally practise medicine in the UK. [1] It is conducted by the General Medical Council of the United Kingdom. The test is designed to assess the depth of ...
The Doctors’ Association UK, a campaign and lobbying group for Doctors and the NHS campaigned to raise awareness of system failures in the case. [32] During the period that the MPTS and GMC suspended and then erased Dr Bawa-Garba, confidence among doctors in England that the GMC is regulating doctors well and that its procedures are fair fell ...
Doctors may be struck off from the medical register because of a criminal conviction or serious professional misconduct. Pages in category "Medical doctors struck off by the General Medical Council" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total.
PMETB ensured that postgraduate training for doctors was of the highest standard. It was accountable to the Parliament of the United Kingdom and acted independently of government. GPs and specialists within the National Health Service (NHS) or working privately in England had to comply with the standards it established [citation needed]. PMETB ...
Before 1969 the only contact most UK doctors had with their self-regulatory body the General Medical Council (GMC) was when they qualified and paid a one-off fee to have their names entered on the Medical Register, a list of doctors the GMC deemed adequately trained to practice medicine. But, that year, the GMC announced that in future doctors ...