Revalidation

Guidance on Supporting Information for Revalidation for Obstetrics and Gynaecology

The Academy of Medical Royal Colleges has prepared generic guidance describing the supporting information required by all doctors for appraisal and revalidation.  All Colleges have been asked to provide, where necessary in this document, additional specialty-specific advice.

Thanks to all Fellows and Members who have provided feedback to the Guidance on Supporting Information for Revalidation for Obstetrics and Gynaecology.

This guidance is going to be piloted over the next few months in its present form and then the RCOG will have an opportunity to make changes prior to its implementation.

Doctors who wish to keep their licence to practise in the UK will need to revalidate, ie they will need to demonstrate to the GMC periodically, normally every five years, that they are up-to-date and fit to practise and complying with the relevant professional standards.

There has been a prolonged debate by the GMC/CMO/DH about the revalidation processes and the GMC has now concluded that revalidation should be a single set of processes with a clear outcome which doctors, their patients and those who employ or contract doctors’ services can understand.

Revalidation will be linked to CPD.  For information about CPD, please click here.

Revalidation - How to find your Responsible Officer

Many doctors still do not know how to find their Responsible Officer.  Please see 'Prescribed Connections' a useful diagram prepared by the NHS Revalidation Support Team and showing what body you will need to contact to find your Responsible Officer.

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