Revalidation
The purpose of revalidation is to ensure that doctors remain up to date and continue to be fit to practise. It aims to:
- support doctors in their professional development
- contribute to improving patient safety and quality of care
- sustain and improve public confidence in the medical profession.
It also aims to facilitate the identification of the small proportion of doctors who are unable to remedy the significant shortfalls in their standards of practice and remove them from the register of doctors.
To achieve these aims the General Medical Council will need assurance that local systems of medical appraisal and clinical governance function effectively and fairly in distinguishing between satisfactory and poor performance, and that Responsible Officers are making correct and valid recommendations.
These pages inform on South Central’s role in helping the region’s NHS and independent health organisations get ready for revalidation in late 2012, and supporting their Responsible Officers.
