Dishonest doctors should not continue to practise

Exemplary medicine: why doctors should practise what they preach.

Doctors should not evaluate competence to drive.

Hundreds continue to practise despite lapsed NMC registrations.

More than 660 nurses have broken the law in the past two years by practising even though their registration has lapsed, according to the Nursing and Midwifery Council.

Why should we continue to learn?

F ormal under-graduate and post-graduate education prepares us with the basic “potential” to implement health care. Actual medical practice and responsibilities place demands on the individual to maintain a relevant level of knowledge, skills, attitudes and even behaviour, to improve standards of practice and patient care. The tensions that arise at a personal level are knowing what to learn, w...

Doctors' health and fitness to practise: assessment models.

The assessment of doctors' health and fitness to practise is recognized as a specialist area of occupational medicine practice. This paper will consider the involvement of specialists from a variety of disciplines in the overall assessment process and will discuss some current assessment models. The paper will make recommendations for further developments in this area.