Medical regulation, fitness to practice and revalidation : a critical introduction / John Martyn Chamberlain.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chamberlain, John, 1938- author.

Series:

Policy Press shorts. Research.

Policy Press shorts. Research

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medical laws and legislation--Great Britain.

Medical laws and legislation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vii, 108 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1

Place of Publication:

Bristol University Press 2015

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This topical and authoritative book examines how the regulation of doctors has been modernised by the introduction of the quality assurance process medical revalidation. In doing so, it questions if there indeed is evidence to support the argument that revalidation serves the public interest by ensuring individual doctors are fit to practice.

Contents:

Defensive medicine: is the process becoming the punishment?

Conclusion

Notes

The Good Medical Practice Framework for Appraisal and Revalidation

Domain 1

Knowledge, skills and performance

Domain 2

Safety and quality

Domain 3

Communication, partnership and teamwork

Domain 4

Maintaining trust

Index.

MEDICAL REGULATION, FITNESS TO PRACTISE AND REVALIDATION

Contents

List of tables

About the author

1. Governing medicine: from gentlemen's club to risk-based regulation

Introduction

Overview of the book

Regulating medicine: the Medical Act 1858

Bristol, Shipman and the Health and Social Care Act 2008

Medical expertise and professional discretion

The 'Bolam test' and the 'Bolitho gloss'

The shift to risk-based regulation

Risk-based regulation, professional discretion and medical game-playing

Medical revalidation and the risks of risk-based regulation

2. Fitness to practise in the workplace: medical revalidation

Challenging medicine: the rise of hospital management and the patient revolt

The central issue of continuing medical education

Introducing doctor appraisal

Medicine's new professionalism and the beginnings of medical revalidation

Bristol and Shipman: all changed, changed utterly

A culture of medical protectionism?

The Health and Social Care Act 2008 and medical revalidation

Responsible officers: implementing revalidation at a local level

Medical revalidation: a Foucauldian interpretation

Appraising performance appraisal in medicine

Revalidation: a ritual of employment?

Conclusion: appraising the system

3. Fitness to practise panels: the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service

Handling complaints and hearing fitness to practise cases

Trends in the GMC investigatory and adjudication procedures

Next steps: the MPTS, FPPs and the Law Commission Review

4. Regulating for the safer doctor in the risk society: is the process the punishment?

The rise of the risk society

Governing medicine in the risk society

Doctors, patients and the media.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 10 Mar 2022).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781447325468

144732546X

9781447325543

1447325540

9781447325451

1447325451

OCLC:

1281934598