The Postgraduate Medical Education and Training Board (PMETB) and the General Medical Council (GMC) have agreed on Standards for Training for the Foundation Programme and outcomes that provisionally registered doctors must demonstrate before receiving full registration. Additionally, through July 17, 2007, the GMC is soliciting input on its Fitness to Practise Rules. These changes and others yet to come are in part a response to a process summarized in a February 2007 government report, Trust, Assurance and Safety – the Regulation of Health Professionals, which makes a number of recommendations among its "key principles for a lasting settlement for professional regulation." Related items:
'No confidence' vote for medical chief
UK doctors may lose self-regulation
Historic Reform To The Regulation Of Health Professionals, UK
June 11, 2007
