Further information

RCPCH e-bulletins

Sign up to these monthly email updates if you don't currently receive them by contacting our membership department. These regularly contain short updates on revalidation to keep you up to date with what's happening.

RCPCH newsletter

Download the RCPCH newsletter

• Summer 2010 revalidation update - access via above link
• Summer 2009 revalidation update - access via the above link
• Spring 2008 revalidation update - access via the above link

Archives of Disease in Childhood

• Access the April 2010 online article 'How paediatricians can prepare for revalidation'.

RCPCH presentations

Revalidation the story so far July 2011 (17 pages, 375 KB)

Should you be holding a paediatric regional meeting on revalidation and want the revalidation team to present at it, please contact us on email revalidation@rcpch.ac.uk

Contact

• Email the Revalidation team at RCPCH

Academy of Medical Royal Colleges

• AoMRC revalidation information

General Medical Council

• Licensing and revalidation information
• FAQs on licensing and revalidation
• UK revalidation programme board information

Departments of Health incl Revalidation Support Team

England

• Revalidation overview
• NHS Revalidation Support Team activities
• Responsibile Officer newsletters

Scotland

• Revalidation projects in Scotland 

Wales

• Welsh Assembly website

Northern Ireland

• Revalidation projects in Northern Ireland

British Medical Association

• BMA Revalidation Information(NB some pages require a login to access)

• Consultant revalidation guidance

External background documents

A series of publications have lead to the development of revalidation:

Good Doctors, Safer Patients (Chief Medical Officer (CMO), July 2006

This report followed final results of the Shipman Inquiry and lays out a series of proposals to strengthen regulation of doctors to protect patient safety. The report made recommendations which formed the basis of the subsequent White Paper.

• Good doctors safer patients (218 pages, 2.1MB)

The White Paper Trust, Assurance and Safety (Dept of Health, February 2007)

Key components of revalidation were set out in this paper in additional to recommendations for:

• Further development of Multisource Feedback (MSF)
• Strengthening of CPD (Continuing Professional Development)
• Academy of Medical Royal Colleges to lead the development of specialty-specific standards
• Introduction of local GMC (General Medical Council) affiliates so that local concerns can be looked at more efficiently and fairly

DH 2007 Trust Assurance and Safety Report.pdf(100 pages, 281KB)

Medical Revalidation - Principles and Next Steps (CMO, July 2008)

Following publication of the White Paper, this working paper discussed principles and challenges of implementing revalidation and Medical Revalidation was their final report. The CMO mentions these important points in his report about revalidation

• It should be primarily supportive, raising standards, and not be a disciplinary mechanism to deal with a small proportion of doctors
• It should be based on evidence drawn from local practice, with robust systems of clinical governance to support it.
• It will depend on the quality, consistency and nature of enhanced appraisal to ensure the confidence of patients and doctors.
• There must be clear links and overlaps between the form of review of practice in relicensing and in recertification.
• Recertification will be based on standards for specialist practice set by Medical Royal Colleges
• A single recommendation to the GMC for revalidation that covers both relicensing and recertification will be required
• It should ensure remediation and rehabilitation elements in the process
• The roll out of both relicensing and recertification should be introduced incrementally, and many aspects will be piloted, evaluated and adapted prior to implementation.