doctors face annual skills check after 150 years

http://www.bbc.com/news/health-19992538

Summary:

Regular checks on doctors’ skills will start this year this is the biggest shake-up in medical regulations for more than 150 years. Every year doctors will have to prove they are worthy enough to do their job. If they prove to be insufficient they have the chance to improve their skills or knowledge. The first round of checks will be finished before April 2016.

If doctors fail to keep up the standard of the General Medical Council (GMC) they would be prevented to practice medicine.

 Last year a survey proved that the most doctors do a really great job but 0.7% of the doctors seem to fail miserably. This annual check should give the public new confidence in doctors.

After years of discussion about the way doctors are monitored a few sever incidents made this annual check final.
In the airline industry pilots face regular, on-going assessments, so why not doctors too! The new system should help improve the quality in the health industry. It took the GMC over 30 years if debating weather or not to have this annual check.

Each NHS organisation will have its own responsible officer who will be in charge of the revalidation. This person will assess the GP along with feedback from patients and colleagues to make a recommendation to the GMC every five years. If the GP proves to have had major issues GMC is allowed to the ultimate sanction which is being struck off the medical register.

Opinion:

It took the GMC only 150 years to come up with an annual check for doctors! I am shocked. The last 30 years they were talking about it without any result… I feel sorry for all the patients and family of the patients how end up with sever health problems and in some cases even death due to malpractice of these doctors. The most worrying thing is that some of these so called GP or specialists still practice medicine. They are still able to do people harm. These people have put their trust into these doctor’s hands. How should you as a patient trust a doctor again?
I am glad to see something finally happened and is going to start really soon. I do hope that the rotten apples will loose their licence to practise so that the good doctors are able to do there work right and do justice to their profession!