E-LEARNING AND CPD
Revalidation: Ready…steady…GO!!
Simon Monkman, head of the Revalidation Project Team (RPT) at Premier IT, argues that revalidation should be viewed as an opportunity, not an obstacle.
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escribed as the biggest change in healthcare since 1948, revalidation has been a process
‘in development’ for over 10 years and is now fi rmly in place with all the appropriate GMC guidance and continual input from the RST (Revalidation Support Team).
Incorporating colleague and patient feedback, along with the requirement to provide supporting information on their scope of work, made many doctors initially sceptical about the process (to put it mildly!).
But, thousands of clinicians have now made a good start in their quest to prove ‘fi tness to practice’ and the vast majority are fi nding it a genuinely valuable exercise that points to possible development needs, in addition to confi rming areas of excellence.
Revalidation will be the new way of regulating licensed doctors, giving extra confi dence to patients that their doctors are up to date and
fi t to practice. Licensed doctors will have to revalidate, usually every fi ve years, by having regular appraisals that are based on the GMC’s core guidance for doctors – ‘Good Medical Practice’.
Through a number of pilots across the country, the RST has continually refi ned its guidance to doctors, and their designated bodies, on the best way to achieve revalidation and it seems clear that any effective system needs to include: • Clear instructions and reminders for both doctors and appraisers throughout the process; • The ability for doctors to review refl ective notes at any time with or without documents; • A range of uploading tools that facilitate simple collation of Supporting Information; • Clear visibility for appraisers of each doctor’s
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portfolio and their progress through a single click; • A complete library of revalidation for Responsible Offi cers including appraisal summaries with links to portfolios, outstanding concerns reporting and links to clinical governance data.
Revalidation should be viewed as an
opportunity, not an obstacle. All the early indications are that good doctors will identify areas of improvement and that those with knowledge gaps (or otherwise) will be fully supported to achieve the standards required.
This is not about passing or failing; this is about raising standards across the board to, ultimately, improve patient care.
Simon Monkman
FOR MORE INFORMATION W:
revalidation.premierit.com
32 | national health executive Jul/Aug 12
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