BRI Final Report: Annex A: Chapter 4 - National Accountabilities and Roles




Home Page Search Final Report - The Final Report text - Summary - Recommendations - Annexes Interim Report Evidence Inquiry Seminars About the Inquiry Help		Annex A > Chapter 4 - National Accountabilities and Roles << previous \| next >> Chapter 4 - National Accountabilities and Roles The National Framework: responsibilities for healthcare Lines of reporting The CMO and the NHS Executive The role of the CMO (Wales) The role of the Welsh Medical Committee Links between the Welsh Office and the DoH The influence of DoH policy on the Welsh Office Perceptions of responsibility The Performance Management Directorate The Clinical Outcomes Group Changes since the period of the Inquiry's Terms of Reference National regulatory and professional bodies Professional regulation - medicine: the GMC The approach of the GMC `Serious' Burden of proof Misconduct rather than poor performance Reactive rather than proactive Specific positive standards of professional conduct Implicit to explicit standards Content of standards regulated by the GMC Response to criticism: constraints imposed by statute Professional regulation - nursing: the UKCC The statutory basis Relative roles and responsibilities of the UKCC and the Royal College of Nursing Fitness to practise: nurses Limits of disciplinary powers Alternative sanctions and interventions Issues common to regulation of doctors and nurses (and others) Disparagement and the duty to inform others if a colleague's conduct is in question Clinicians' traditional attitudes Movement in attitudes and published guidance The Dunn case and `Good Medical Practice' Disparagement and the duty to inform others if a colleague's conduct is in question - (nurses) Changes since 1995 Duty to inform - whistleblowing: healthcare staff in general Recent developments Healthcare professionals in management Team-based standards Nursing - National Boards for Nursing, Midwifery and Health Visiting: statutory basis and functions Royal Colleges Educational and training standards Educational and training standards - with particular reference to surgery Educational training standards - proposals for change The Colleges' role and responsibility for setting and monitoring standards of care Relationship between the Royal Colleges and the GMC Proposed reforms of the Colleges Specialist associations Trade unions of healthcare professionals British Medical Association (BMA) BMA - role BMA - responsibilities Employment contracts Medical contracts - terms Junior hospital doctors Nurses Professions Allied to Medicine Chief executives, hospital managers and administrators General practitioners Terms of employment Summary of respective roles of bodies concerned with standards and their implementation Continuing professional development (CPD) CPD as a professional obligation GMC Royal Colleges Revalidation Mechanics of revalidation << previous \| next >> \| back to top