Revalidation cannot be left to the GMC alone. Commentary. JASGBI 2012 - 38

David Rew

Alastair McLellan Editor of the Health Service Journal
Jeremy Hunt announced the final go-ahead for medical revalidation within days of his decision to ask the Independent Reconfiguration Panel to review children's heart surgery.

It is more than a decade since the Bristol Royal Infirmary inquiry highlighted the variability of medical performance and fed the debate over the creation of specialist centres. The NHS has been wrestling with both issues ever since.

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