By Lloyd Mudiwa. It has yet to be decided whether the new National Office for Clinical Audit in Surgery (NOCAS) — due to be launched within months — will report surgeons found to be incompetent or who have serious problems with their practice to the Medical Council, the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI) [...]
By Lloyd Mudiwa. The Medical Council is working to streamline the recognition for the equivalence of internship in order to speed up the registration to the Medical Register process for NCHDs, Irish Medical Times can reveal.
By Dara Gantly. The Medical Council has issued a reminder to doctors about their legal duty to maintain their professional competence (PC) ahead of monitoring and audit activities being introduced later this year.
Prof Kieran Murphy, Medical Council President, reflects on the successful first year of the new Professional Competence Schemes.
By Lloyd Mudiwa. The Department of Defence is considering whether an application will be made to the Medical Council seeking the recognition of military medicine as a specialty, Irish Medical Times reports.
By Lloyd Mudiwa. A doctor whose performance is found wanting, under new Medical Council assessment rules, will be given an opportunity to develop an action plan themselves outlining the activities or actions they plan to undertake to address the situation, it has emerged.
The President of the Medical Council Prof Kieran Murphy tells Lloyd Mudiwa how the on-site performance assessment of doctors under new professional competence rules will actually work.
Dear Editor, I enjoy my weekly read of Irish Medical Times. However, the perennial gloomy headlines (‘On-site assessments to begin by April — Council’, ‘EC seeks meeting on EWTD’, and ‘HSE delays stymie return of NCHDs’, IMT, February 3, 2012, http://bit.ly/wXM5bS) are in sharp contrast to the pictures of smiling GPs in the events pages, [...]
By Lloyd Mudiwa. There has been a one-quarter increase in medical claims costs in the space of only five years, as well as a growing number of doctors appearing before the Medical Council, according to the Medical Protection Society (MPS).
By Dara Gantly. The Medical Council has published details of new procedures for assessing doctors’ performance, which will see on-site assessments for the first time introduced by the end of April.
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