News in brief: November 2011. Published: 27 October 2011 DOI: 10.1136/sbmj.d6934 Cite this as: Student BMJ 2011;19:d6934 The General Medical Council has decided not to register medical students.
Registration with the GMC is required to practise medicine in the United Kingdom. But the GMC has concluded that registering all students before they qualify would bring no additional protection, benefit to the public, or increase patient safety. Student registration with the GMC would have brought consistency in fitness to practise disciplinary rulings. After a review on student registration, stimulated by the 2010 Collins review of the foundation programme, however, the GMC says that local management of students’ disciplinary rulings would be quicker and more efficient. Registration would have also served to support students into professional practice and inform them about regulation.
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UK health service reforms. Tomorrow’s doctors face a radically different NHS By: Adrian O’Dowd Published: 09 March 2011 DOI: 10.1136/sbmj.d1171 Cite this as: Student BMJ 2011;19:d1171 The government is planning far reaching reforms for the health service in England designed to shift control from the centre to local level and give doctors control of most of the NHS budget.
The planned reforms were first unveiled in July of last year and are encapsulated in the Health and Social Care Bill currently progressing through parliament. The Bill passed its first reading in the House of Commons on 31 January and is currently being scrutinised (until 31 March) by 26 MPs on a Bill Committee before going back to the Commons for debate and amendments. It could become law by July at the earliest. If passed, the Bill will mean: For medical students, these changes will have a substantial impact on the environment in which they work. To read the rest of this article sign in or complete a FREE registration. Today. Medicine.