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Medical regulation, fitness to practise and revalidation : a critical introduction /

Medical sociology has long been concerned with the role played by specialist forms of expertise in enabling the governance of 'troublesome' social groups - including those who are unwell, 'deviant' and criminally insane. However, only recently has it begun to explore how the stat...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Chamberlain, John Martyn (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bristol : Policy Press, 2015.
Colección:Policy Press shorts. Research.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • MEDICAL REGULATION, FITNESS TO PRACTISE AND REVALIDATION
  • Contents
  • List of tables
  • About the author
  • 1. Governing medicine: from gentlemen's club to risk-based regulation
  • Introduction
  • Overview of the book
  • Regulating medicine: the Medical Act 1858
  • Bristol, Shipman and the Health and Social Care Act 2008
  • Medical expertise and professional discretion
  • The 'Bolam test' and the 'Bolitho gloss'
  • The shift to risk-based regulation
  • Risk-based regulation, professional discretion and medical game-playing
  • Medical revalidation and the risks of risk-based regulation
  • Conclusion
  • 2. Fitness to practise in the workplace: medical revalidation
  • Introduction
  • Challenging medicine: the rise of hospital management and the patient revolt
  • The central issue of continuing medical education
  • Introducing doctor appraisal
  • Medicine's new professionalism and the beginnings of medical revalidation
  • Bristol and Shipman: all changed, changed utterly
  • A culture of medical protectionism?
  • The Health and Social Care Act 2008 and medical revalidation
  • Responsible officers: implementing revalidation at a local level
  • Medical revalidation: a Foucauldian interpretation
  • Appraising performance appraisal in medicine
  • Revalidation: a ritual of employment?
  • Conclusion: appraising the system
  • 3. Fitness to practise panels: the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service
  • Introduction
  • Handling complaints and hearing fitness to practise cases
  • Trends in the GMC investigatory and adjudication procedures
  • Next steps: the MPTS, FPPs and the Law Commission Review
  • Conclusion
  • 4. Regulating for the safer doctor in the risk society: is the process the punishment?
  • Introduction
  • The rise of the risk society
  • Governing medicine in the risk society
  • Doctors, patients and the media.
  • Defensive medicine: is the process becoming the punishment?
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • The Good Medical Practice Framework for Appraisal and Revalidation
  • Domain 1
  • Knowledge, skills and performance
  • Domain 2
  • Safety and quality
  • Domain 3
  • Communication, partnership and teamwork
  • Domain 4
  • Maintaining trust
  • Index.