OBJECTIVE To investigate the utility of the GMC patient and colleague questionnaires in assessing the professional performance of a large sample of UK doctors. DESIGN Cross-sectional questionnaire surveys. SETTING Range of UK clinical practice settings. PARTICIPANTS 541 doctors gave preliminary agreement to take part in the study. Responses were received from 13 754 patients attending one...

When the health secretary, Jeremy Hunt, emailed all junior doctors with his contract proposals, he began, “Dear colleague.” So let’s consider Hunt as a colleague, a team mate, a coworker, an ally—a doctor. The NHS’s “duty of candour” policy requires doctors to apologise for and reflect on errors that they make. A photograph that Hunt tweeted of himself in a hospital contained identifiable patie...

We, in common with many others, realized that with his passing, an era in hypertension research had also ended, and that it would be remiss of us and of ‘Blood Pressure Monitoring’ on which he served with us as a senior editor for so many years, if we did not pay tribute to his remarkable achievements. We acknowledge it as a tribute to the friendship and respect that Tom inspired across the wor...