All General Medical Council (GMC) articles – Page 4
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Exclusive: Trust CEO subject to ‘fit and proper person’ review
The chief executive of University Hospitals Birmingham Foundation Trust is facing a fit and proper persons review following a critical employment tribunal hearing,HSJ can reveal.
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Tackle ‘bias’ against overseas doctors or risk shortage warns regulator
The NHS must tackle the discrimination faced by overseas medics as an essential part of renewed efforts to improve retention as fewer doctors arrive in the UK from abroad, the chief executive of the General Medical Council has told HSJ.
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Juniors breach 72-hour week at trust with previous training concerns
Trainee doctors at a special measures trust worked more than 72 hours in one week after being asked to do seven 10-hour shifts in a row.
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All doctors’ financial interests must be published
A government review says the financial interests of all doctors should be published on the General Medical Council’s register, due to concerns around potential conflicts of interest.
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The NHS is failing ‘all those it was set up to serve’, concludes government review
The NHS has “either lost sight of the interests of all those it was set up to serve or does not know how best to do this”, a major government-commissioned review has concluded.
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Comment
There should be a public inquiry into BME staff wellbeing in the NHS
A virus of racism would appear to be endemic in the NHS. In the eyes of many, racial bias, at an institutional level and at an individual level, is prevalent, and operates both consciously and unconsciously. An often-overlooked area is the impact on BME staff wellbeing. Simple reforms could bring ...
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Bullying, bad behaviour and broken IT uncovered at worst trusts for junior doctors
Regulators have uncovered multiple examples of patients being put at risk when junior doctors are left with tasks they are not trained for, lacking support, and facing bullying and inappropriate behaviour.
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HSJ Interactive
Telemedicine – clinical negligence considerations
Clinical negligence claims are often built upon a lack of adequate documentation of what was said and allegations that patients have not been properly counselled about risks and alternatives. Elizabeth Thomas explores what this means for the increasingly significant role of telemedicine and the steps which can go a long ...
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Exclusive: Huge drop in overseas nurses
The number of overseas nurses who joined the UK nursing and midwifery register on a permanent basis fell dramatically in April — but a large number signed up to work during the covid-19 crisis under special rules.
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Expert Briefing
The Ward Round: The virtual frontline
Staffing is the issue keeping NHS leaders awake at night — and which consumes two-thirds of trusts’ spending. The fortnightly The Ward Round newsletter, by HSJ workforce correspondent Annabelle Collins, will make sure you are tuned in to the daily pressures on staff, and the wider trends and policies shaping ...
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NHS workforce plan at risk as covid scuppers overseas recruitment
The first year of the government’s plan to significantly boost the NHS workforce has been hit by a significant fall in international recruitment caused by the coronavirus pandemic.
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Comment
Covid proves that commissioning and regulation add little value
The development of strategy over a local health economy will be much more coherent if provider led, says Peter Carter
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Junior doctor rotations to restart in the summer
Medical training rotations will take place as planned this summer, Health Education England has announced.
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Exclusive: ‘Backsliding’ major teaching trust could lose general surgery trainees
A major tertiary trust where junior doctors described their training as ‘the blind leading the blind’ has been warned it could lose its foundation year trainees in general surgery, HSJ has learned.
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Surgeons face “uncomfortable” decisions and a “mammoth” catch-up task
The surgical workforce has a key role to play in the current crisis which requires adaptation and cooperation, write Emily A.H. Duggan, Alex C.G. Armstrong, Justin C.R. Wormald and Mark M. Mikhail
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Trust loses appeal against tribunal which strongly criticised CEO’s evidence
A major teaching trust has lost an appeal against an employment tribunal which had been highly critical of evidence given by its chief executive, in the unfair dismissal of a whistleblowing surgeon.
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Private hospital threatens nurses refusing to treat covid-19 patients
Nurses at a hospital run by a major private healthcare provider have been threatened with disciplinary action after apparently refusing to treat coronavirus patients, according to a leaked email.
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GMC defers revalidations until next year due to coronavirus
Doctors due to revalidate their licences between now and September have been told to delay doing so until next year and focus on their frontline duties.
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Junior doctors’ rotations paused amid covid-19 pandemic
Junior doctors’ rotations have been put on hold as the NHS continues to prepare for combating the coronavirus pandemic.
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Exclusive: Doctors told not to fear reprisal during coronavirus outbreak
NHS national leaders are set to reassure doctors they will be supported by their employers and should not fear regulatory reprisals, within reason, if they end up working outside their areas of expertise during the coronavirus outbreak.