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The Government today announced the formation of the NHS GMC (General Managers Council ): to be or not to be confused with the other GMC. NHS Managers will be obliged to be registered with the new body and a fee will be payable of around the cost of servicing a Mercedes Benz, and for which your employer will not refund you. You will pay the same fee, irrespective of how much or how little you earn. I.e. you will pay as much as your Chief Executive. Managers will have to keep records of appraisals, conferences attended, CPD and KPIs. A national register of performance against target KPIs will be established and managers will be given their funnel plots w.r.t. colleagues. So will their Chief Executive. Outliers will be 'counselled'. Anyone will have the right to lodge a complaint against any manager and the NHS GMC will investigate each one. The investigation will involve writing to anyone the manager has worked for [even outside the UK] in the last five years. The previous employers will be asked if they had any - and I mean any - concerns of even the slightest about your performance, conduct, probity etc, etc.

You will have to revalidate as a manager every 5 years. If you fail to revalidate or any serious concern about your performance as a manager is upheld [see above] you may be struck off and be unemployable as an NHS manager. Learn to drive a bus. Even if not struck off, you may go through years of stress and anxiety while 'remedial measures' are applied, or until your name is cleared.

Unbelievable? Try being a doctor registered with the GMC, because that is exactly what we have to put up with.