GMC

2010 budget and business plan agreed. [media release 11 December]

GMC calls for a national prescription chart to reduce errors. Press release. [media release 3 December]

GMC today – online newsletter

New patient leaflet helps doctors to explain licensing. [media release 16 December]

Links to external web pages.

General Medical Council

Confidentiality: guidance for doctors. [new guidance – comes into force 12 October]

GMC podcast also available – click here for transcript.

GMC today – September / October 2009 newsletter.

Licensing presentation - click here.

Tomorrow’s doctors 2009.

Links to external web pages.

GMC Scotland

Scotland Patients’ Association Conference 2009: ‘Respect and dignity’

GMC description:

The topic for this years conference is Respect and Dignity. Several notable speakers will include the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Wellbeing, Nicola Sturgeon MSP; Margo MacDonald MSP and Michael Clancy OBE, from the Law Society.

For further information or to attend this conference please contact Scotland Patients Association at: contact@scotlandpatients.com or telephone 0141 942 0376.

Scottish Partnership for Palliative Care Annual Conference: Palliative care: how can we make a difference? 30 September 2009. Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, 9 Queen Street, EDINBURGH, EH2 1JQ.

For more information, and to book go to:
http://www.palliativecarescotland.org.uk

Links to external web pages.

GMC

GMC launches online tutorials in medical ethics.

GMC reviews guidance for doctors on involving patients in research.

GMC Today is published (July/August 2009).

[Links to external webpages]

GMC

Developing local systems to support revalidation. [news release]

GMC consults on the management of fitness to practise cases. [news release]

GMC consults on extending the use of consensual disposal in fitness to practise cases [ends 10 August / news release].

GMC Today is published (29 May 2009).

Merger of PMETB with GMC moves closer. [news release]

[links to external web pages]

General Medical Council

'Licensing: it’s time to decide' [news release].

[link to external webpage]

General Medical Council

GMC announces new Council Chair.

GMC launches consultation on end of life care.

GMC Today (March/April issue – released 3 April).

UK Revalidation Programme Board welcomes pilot progress.

[links to external webpages]

GMC

On your best behaviour: new guidance for medical students
http://www.gmcpressoffice.org.uk/apps/news/latest/detail.php?key=510

GMC

GMC Business Plan 2009
http://www.gmc-uk.org/publications/business_plans/index.asp

GMC Scotland

Tomorrow’s doctors consultation (news update issued 16 February 2009 - no link):

“The General Medical Council is currently consulting on a new edition of Tomorrow's Doctors. This document specifies the outcomes that graduates from UK medical schools must achieve in order to graduate, as well as standards for the delivery of teaching, learning and assessment.

As part of the consultation GMC Scotland is holding three workshops for key interest groups in March. Representatives from the medical schools, NHS, Scottish Government and public and patient interest groups have been invited, along with medical students, doctors and others.”

GMC

Doctors urged to take part in GMC licensing regulations consultation.
https://gmc.e-consultation.net/econsult/consultation_Dtl.aspx?consult_Id=61&status=2&criteria=I

GMC Scotland

GMC response to Patient’s Rights Bill consultation.
http://www.gmc-uk.org/scotland/news_and_events/documents/GMC%20Response%20-%20Patients'%20Rights%20(Scotland)%20Bill%20-%20Final%20090120.pdf

Patients’ Right. A Public Consultation on a Patients’ Rights Bill for users of the NHS in Scotland (Scottish Government).
http://www.gmc-uk.org/scotland/news_and_events/documents/Consultation%20%20-%20Patients%20Rights%20Bill%20080922.pdf

GMC

GMC appoints chair for UK revalidation programme board – Sir Michael Pitt
http://www.gmc-uk.org/news/index.asp#chair

GMC Today (November/December issue – released December)
http://www.gmc-uk.org/publications/gmc_today/GMCtoday_Nov_issue.pdf

Tomorrow's Doctors 2009: a draft for consultation. Consultation Started: Dec 15, 2008 Ends:
Mar 27, 2009. Results Published: July 1, 2009
https://gmc.e-consultation.net/econsult/consultation_Dtl.aspx?consult_Id=56&status=2&criteria=I

GMC

Help for witnesses guidance.
http://www.gmc-uk.org/concerns/witnesses/index.asp

GMC contacts doctors in preparation for the introduction of the licence to practice.
http://www.gmcpressoffice.org.uk/apps/news/latest/detail.php?key=483

GMC launches consultation on eligibility for inclusion in the Specialist Register.
http://www.gmcpressoffice.org.uk/apps/news/latest/detail.php?key=479

Who you gonna call? GMC launches complaints website for patients.http://www.gmcpressoffice.org.uk/apps/news/latest/detail.php?key=481

General Medical Council

General Medical Council seeks Chair for UK Revalidation Programme Board.
http://www.gmcpressoffice.org.uk/apps/news/latest/detail.php?key=472

GMCtoday
http://www.gmcpressoffice.org.uk/apps/news/latest/detail.php?key=462

GMC

Giving patients confidence - UK-wide consultation for the review of the GMC's guidance on confidentiality launched
http://www.gmcpressoffice.org.uk/apps/news/latest/print.php?key=457

GMC affiliates: bridging the regulatory gap
http://www.gmcpressoffice.org.uk/apps/news/archive/detail.php?key=460

GMC

Licensing and revalidation – web information pages
http://www.gmc-uk.org/about/reform/index.asp

GMC

Scottish Forum for Professional Ethics annual conference. Monday, 8 September 2008: Playfair Library Hall, The University of Edinburgh
http://www.gmc-uk.org/scotland/news_and_events/events.asp

General Medical Council

GMC Today issue July / August 2008
http://www.gmcpressoffice.org.uk/apps/news/latest/detail.php?key=448

GMC

Student fitness to practise consultation
https://gmc.e-consultation.net/studentftp/