Category: GMC

Physician associates can practise for two years unregistered: GMC

PAs can continue to practise without registration until December 2026 according to a new timeline laid out by the GMC.

Survey: Physician associates pose ‘significant’ patient risk

LocumDeck, NASGP’s booking platform, includes a setting for each practice for locums to express their level of willingness to supervise non-GPs.

Workload and burnout behind new GP trends, GMC finds

Numbers of UK medical graduates joining the GP register fell 4% in 2022 compared with 2018.

Physician associates must work within ‘red lines’: RCGP

Prof Hawthorne said she had also been warned that it would taken a year for PAs to become regulated by the GMC.

Sessional GPs’ role in parental disagreements

In some cases involving children, a sessional GP will be faced with a scenario involving requests for a child’s medical records from separated parents. Dr Heidi Mounsey, Medicolegal Consultant at Medical Protection, sets out some underlying principles that are usually applicable to most cases.

GP’s apology is not an admission of guilt, GMC confirms

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Record-keeping for GP locums: three tips for better notes

Look out for auto-correct blunders and pick up tips from colleagues, Dr Rachel Birch advises.

GP revalidation begins again in August 2021, GMC says

The GMC will contact GPs in August to reschedule revalidation, Pulse reports.

Code of Good Practice

NASGP has a continued aim to promote high standards of medical care. In doing so the NASGP has detailed its Code of Good Practice, which endorses the GMCs ‘Good Medical Practice’