General Medical Council: Election of Direct Representative for England

The General Medical Council and Midwifery

Alternative allergy and the General Medical Council.

In July 1992 Dr Keith Mumby, a clinical ecologist, appeared before the professional conduct committee of the General Medical Council on five charges to do with his practice of clinical ecology. He was found guilty of two of the charges--touting for publicity and failing to give a patient adequate medical attention--and admonished. The GMC failed, however, to address the issue of the nature of M...

Report of the Education-Committee of the General Medical Council

" A grand opportunity missed," is the depressing verdict which a careful perusal of the above begets. After 1892 the duration of medical study is to be five years. If these five }?ears had been devoted to genuine medical study, we should have had nothing but congratulations to offer; but as the first of these five years is devoted to studies which are not medical, and as the last year is to be ...

View from an inspectorate. Inspectorate of the General Nursing Council for England and Wales.

The development of ethical guidance for medical practitioners by the General Medical Council.

INTRODUCTION In 1858, legislation was enacted in Britain which created a statutory body entitled the General Council of Medical Education and Registration of the United Kingdom.' This title, which was subsequently described by Viscount Addison in the House of Lords as "a cumbersome name" the initials ofwhich "have often befogged many of us in the past",2 and which was later abbreviated to Gener...