Professor Joseph Obi | " . . . The Issue of True Regulatory Confidence in the GMC urgently needs to be properly put to Professional Vote . . . "
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FROM THE MEDICAL ARCHIVES :
SCANDALS BRING VOTE OF NO CONFIDENCE IN GMC
C. Hall
Daily Telegraph, June 30th 2000, p.6
Doctors passed a historic vote of no confidence in the General Medical Council, their regulatory body, for failing to protect patients.
Doctors were critical of its slowness, bureaucracy, lack of openness and the way it developed plans for revalidation - a system of checking that doctors were competent and entitled to stay on the Medical Register.
Members of the British Medical Association demanded urgent reforms of GMC's structure and functions in consultation with the profession.