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InnovAiT 2009 2(6):328-329; doi:10.1093/innovait/inp069
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© The Author 2009. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the RCGP. All rights reserved. For permissions please e-mail: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org

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Dr Clare Etherington

Ridgeway Surgery, North Harrow

Dr Oliver van Hecke

Parkview Medical Practice, Carnoustie

E-mail: c.etherington@gp-e84068.nhs.uk

E-mail: ovanhecke@nhs.net

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   Revalidation
 
The RCGP has produced a summary of its proposals for the evidence required for the revalidation of GPs (www.rcgp.org.uk/revalidation.aspx).

GPs will be expected to be relicensed to practise as doctors and recertified to practise as GPs, on a 5 yearly cycle; revalidation. For standard GPs, this will involve producing evidence of effective and active participation in five annual appraisals.

All of us are invited to give feedback on these proposals; a chance to steer our own futures. www.rcgp.org.uk/revalidation_guide_feedback.

The first GPs are expected to revalidate in 2010, so all of us should be starting to collect evidence from 1 April 2009.

There are many ways of learning about the evidence needed for satisfactory appraisal. As part of your Workplace-based Assessment, you will be involved in multisource feedback and patient satisfaction questionnaires. At appraisal, you will have to show evidence about how . . . [Full Text of this Article]


   What the future may hold ...
 

   Feedback: good or bad?
 

   Federation model: what do you think?
 

   Dealing with media information
 

   Work Capability Assessment
 

   Availability of over-the-counter drugs
 

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