BACKGROUND To evaluate NHS England London region's approach to the revalidation appraisal of responsible officers in London, exploring perceptions of the quality and impact of the appraisal process. Revalidation is the process which aims to ensure doctors in the UK are up-to-date and fit to practice medicine thus improving the quality of patient care. Revalidation recommendations are largely pr...

Editor—The General Medical Council recently held a “stakeholders’ conference” on the revalidation of doctors, at which participants reportedly went along with the educationally improbable proposition that formative assessments (“appraisals”) can be summated to provide robust formal revalidation decisions: “five satisfactory appraisals equals revalidation.” Now, reminiscent of the Vatican’s 17th...

From April 2005 all doctors in the UK will be expected to be able to demonstrate their fitness to practice as part of the GMC revalidation procedures. The revalidation process is explicitly linked to the consultant appraisal process implemented in 2001. Central to both processes is the development of a folder (portfolio) of supporting evidence. Many consultants have no experience of developing ...

BACKGROUND The general practice (GP) workforce in England is in crisis, with declining morale and job satisfaction, increasing early retirement and declining interest in training to become a GP. We recently reported on factors that are influencing this, with appraisal and revalidation emerging as an unexpected finding; 28.6 % of GPs stating an intention to leave general practice within the next...

BACKGROUND Revalidation for UK doctors is expected to be introduced from late 2012. For general practitioners (GPs), this entails collecting supporting information to be submitted and assessed in a revalidation portfolio every five years. The aim of this study was to explore the feasibility of GPs working in secure environments to collect supporting information for the Royal College of General ...

AIM External quality assurance (EQA) is an extremely valuable resource for clinical pathologists to maintain high standards, improve diagnostic skills, and possibly revalidate medical license. The aim of this study was to participate in and compare four international slide survey programs (UK, IAP-Germany, USA-Canada, Australasia) in pediatric histopathology for clinical pathologists with the a...

BACKGROUND In the UK, a process of revalidation is being introduced to allow doctors to demonstrate that they meet current professional standards, are up-to-date, and fit to practise. Given the serious risks to patients from hazardous use of medicines it will be appropriate, as part of the revalidation process, to assess the safety of prescribing by GPs. AIM To identify a set of potential pre...

The present study was designed to analyse community participation in the co‑management of UNESCO Global Geopark El Hierro (The Canary Islands, Spain) after its first revalidation process 2018 (where this aspect figured as central, pending attention) and previous 2022 revalidation. carried out at height crisis caused by Covid‑19 pandemic planned detect whether later regeneration, island should f...

Phylogenies produced by Yang et al. 2015 provide reasonably well-supported hypotheses of relationships among 11 proposed tribes of cyprinine fishes and present an interesting hypothesis about the origin of a number of polyploid cyprinine lineages. However, support for relationships within some of the tribes is equivocal. Herein we address the treatment of African diploid and tetraploid cyprinin...

The Nursing and Midwifery Council's revised Code became effective on 31 March 2015 (NMC, 2015a) and post-registration education and practice (Prep) will be replaced with revalidation in October 2015 (NMC, 2015b). The new standards and requirements aim to reassure the public that midwives are reflective, professional practitioners who provide high-quality care underpinned by best evidence (NMC, ...