The College Role

• To provide an AAC panel member whose role is to prove quality assurance of the process in both the shortlisting and interview stages of an appointment.
• The College AAC representative is usually a College Fellow who has served for at least five years in the relevant specialty and who has come from outside the Region in which the appointment is to be made.

Information and Guidance

Information on the legislation setting up the Advisory Appointments Committees (AACs) process as well as guidance from the Department of Health in England on conduct of AACs is contained in the following documents.

Please note that for application by trainees for consultant posts the maximum time limit before CCST has now been extended from three months to six months. 

• Statutory Instrument 1996 Number 701 Setting up the AAC process
• Statutory Instrument 2004 Number 3365 updating the AAC process
• Advice from the Department of Health in England on the conduct of AACs 

AAC Contact Information

For e-mail enquiries about individual AAC processes write to aacenquiries@rcpch.ac.uk.

Staff responsible for this work are listed below: 

Mr John Pettitt
Advisory Appointments and Committee Administrator

Ms Serean Williamson

Policy & Standards Administrator

Mrs Shilpa Shah
AAC Assistant Administrator