DH - The Medical Profession (Miscellaneous Amendments) Order 2008 - consultation summary: November 2008 - 11 Nov 08

Source
This document sets out the outcome of a consultation to a number of changes to the 1983 Act, and to the 2003 Order. All amendments relate to the General Medical Council. Some also relate to the functions of the Privy Council and the Postgraduate Medical Education and Training Board.

• Download Consultation response (PDF, 68K)
• Download Impact Assessment (PDF, 139K)

Original consultation

• Consultation on the Medical Profession (Miscellaneous Amendments) Order 2008

Executive Summary
The draft Medical Profession (Miscellaneous Amendments) Order 2008 (“the 2008 Order”) makes a number of changes to the Medical Act 1983 (“the 1983 Act”) and to the General and Specialist Medical Practice (Education, Training and Qualifications) Order 2003 (“the 2008 Order”). These changes will implement two of the reforms set out in The White Paper: Trust, Assurance and Safety –The Regulation of Health Professionals in the 21st Century. These are:

• The transfer of the statutory functions of oversight of medical education from the Education Committee of the General Medical Council (GMC), and
• Amendments to Part 3A of the Medical Act 1983 in line with revised thinking (since 2002) on the process of revalidation, which will facilitate the introduction of licences to practice and the development of revalidation pilot schemes.
  The draft order also allows the GMC to provide a mechanism to enable senior consultants who did not apply for inclusion in the Specialist Register at the time it was established to make a late application to the GMC. This will reinstate powers the GMC had prior to September 2005.
• The draft 2008 Order was published for public consultation on 6 March 2008. That consultation closed on 5 June 2008.
• This document summarises the response to the consultation.

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