Re: BMA annual meeting: GMC should be funded by public not doctors, says BMA
Are we paying for Devil's Advocate?
The GMC internal review report in December 2014 identified that 114 doctors died and nearly 25 committed suicide between year 2005-2013 who were under investigation under GMC. This is such an alarming situation , social dilemma and its not less than any emergency .
The sad view of all this is that doctor's community is quiet whereas this issue should be dealt on emergency basis.There is certain element of discontentment among doctors that they are paying for an organisation and licensing body where perception of " Proven guilty unless proven otherwise" overshadows the original idea of support.
Doctors are already under stress due to ever evolving processes like appraisal, re validation, PALS complaints etc which symbolises an outlook of continuous surveillance ensuring competency and suitability for particular job.
An airborne passenger in the plane has blind faith in the captain of the plane and this is due to the common belief and fact that airline industry is quite strict in maintaining safety management systems, similarly our patients needs to know that doctors are continuously assessed throughout their careers and they should get this feeling that they are in the safe hands.However this is the time to rethink and its a fair argument that like BBC, fire brigade or like any other public sector service ; the GMC should be funded by Tax Payer and not by doctors because 25 deaths clearly shows that "Fear prevails as opposed to Support" when doctors know that any body can approach GMC and can complain irrespective of big / serious or small / trivial and inconsequential complaint in nature.
Only notion and stance of " proven innocent unless proven otherwise" can change the perception of fear into support.
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Re: BMA annual meeting: GMC should be funded by public not doctors, says BMA
Are we paying for Devil's Advocate?
The GMC internal review report in December 2014 identified that 114 doctors died and nearly 25 committed suicide between year 2005-2013 who were under investigation under GMC. This is such an alarming situation , social dilemma and its not less than any emergency .
The sad view of all this is that doctor's community is quiet whereas this issue should be dealt on emergency basis.There is certain element of discontentment among doctors that they are paying for an organisation and licensing body where perception of " Proven guilty unless proven otherwise" overshadows the original idea of support.
Doctors are already under stress due to ever evolving processes like appraisal, re validation, PALS complaints etc which symbolises an outlook of continuous surveillance ensuring competency and suitability for particular job.
An airborne passenger in the plane has blind faith in the captain of the plane and this is due to the common belief and fact that airline industry is quite strict in maintaining safety management systems, similarly our patients needs to know that doctors are continuously assessed throughout their careers and they should get this feeling that they are in the safe hands.However this is the time to rethink and its a fair argument that like BBC, fire brigade or like any other public sector service ; the GMC should be funded by Tax Payer and not by doctors because 25 deaths clearly shows that "Fear prevails as opposed to Support" when doctors know that any body can approach GMC and can complain irrespective of big / serious or small / trivial and inconsequential complaint in nature.
Only notion and stance of " proven innocent unless proven otherwise" can change the perception of fear into support.
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