Medical regulation, fitness to practice and revalidation : a critical introduction / [electronic resource]
Chamberlain, John,1938-author.
This topical and authoritative book examines how the regulation of doctors has been modernised by the introduction of the quality assurance process medical revalidation. In doing so, it questions if there indeed is evidence to support the argument that revalidation serves the public interest by ensuring individual doctors are fit to practice.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Defensive medicine: is the process becoming the punishment? -- Conclusion -- Notes -- The Good Medical Practice Framework for Appraisal and Revalidation -- Domain 1 -- Knowledge, skills and performance -- Domain 2 -- Safety and quality -- Domain 3 -- Communication, partnership and teamwork -- Domain 4 -- Maintaining trust -- Index.
MEDICAL REGULATION, FITNESS TO PRACTISE AND REVALIDATION -- Contents -- List of tables -- About the author -- 1. Governing medicine: from gentlemen's club to risk-based regulation -- Introduction -- Overview of the book -- Regulating medicine: the Medical Act 1858 -- Bristol, Shipman and the Health and Social Care Act 2008 -- Medical expertise and professional discretion -- The 'Bolam test' and the 'Bolitho gloss' -- The shift to risk-based regulation -- Risk-based regulation, professional discretion and medical game-playing -- Medical revalidation and the risks of risk-based regulation -- Conclusion -- 2. Fitness to practise in the workplace: medical revalidation -- Introduction -- Challenging medicine: the rise of hospital management and the patient revolt -- The central issue of continuing medical education -- Introducing doctor appraisal -- Medicine's new professionalism and the beginnings of medical revalidation -- Bristol and Shipman: all changed, changed utterly -- A culture of medical protectionism? -- The Health and Social Care Act 2008 and medical revalidation -- Responsible officers: implementing revalidation at a local level -- Medical revalidation: a Foucauldian interpretation -- Appraising performance appraisal in medicine -- Revalidation: a ritual of employment? -- Conclusion: appraising the system -- 3. Fitness to practise panels: the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service -- Introduction -- Handling complaints and hearing fitness to practise cases -- Trends in the GMC investigatory and adjudication procedures -- Next steps: the MPTS, FPPs and the Law Commission Review -- Conclusion -- 4. Regulating for the safer doctor in the risk society: is the process the punishment? -- Introduction -- The rise of the risk society -- Governing medicine in the risk society -- Doctors, patients and the media.
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This topical and authoritative book examines how the regulation of doctors has been modernised by the introduction of the quality assurance process medical revalidation. In doing so, it questions if there indeed is evidence to support the argument that revalidation serves the public interest by ensuring individual doctors are fit to practice.
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