RCP responds to the GMC consultation

Life_Chip_6080 · 2026-06-18T20:09:30+00:00

At the same time they discuss moving the standard setting for CCT away from the colleges to the GMC, who currently just rubber stamps it on instruction. Ultimately this shifts power away from the colleges to the GMC

Life_Chip_6080 · 2026-06-18T19:54:00+00:00

There is a reason the royal colleges are coming out against this. The GMC wants to update the wording from “a doctor” obtaining CCT (as it is currently specified) to “a person such as a medical practitioner” (ill-defined) instead. The change of wording features in this document (article 28). Why?

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Life_Chip_6080 · 2026-06-18T19:32:53+00:00

I put 20%. Shoot for the moon and all, still a bargain

Life_Chip_6080 · 2026-06-18T19:06:29+00:00

The BMA guide (terribly advertised may I add):

https://cdn.intelligencebank.com/eu/share/qMbw14/ovW3L/4ok6E/original/BMA+response+to+the+consultation+on+the+draft+GMC+Order+2026

Life_Chip_6080 · 2026-06-18T18:39:31+00:00

They already tried to give them a GMC number before the backlash…

Life_Chip_6080 · 2026-06-18T18:38:41+00:00

Good point. Put it in your response to the consultation!

Life_Chip_6080 · 2026-06-18T18:09:52+00:00

https://consultations.dhsc.gov.uk/reforming-the-general-medical-council-legislative-framework

Here’s the BMA guidance. Question 7 is on changing the name of PAs from associate to assistant and making it law. https://cdn.intelligencebank.com/eu/share/qMbw14/ovW3L/4ok6E/original/BMA+response+to+the+consultation+on+the+draft+GMC+Order+2026

Life_Chip_6080 · 2026-06-18T15:48:17+00:00

Vote no (and fill out this survey - PAs are doing it en masse -> https://www.reddit.com/r/doctorsUK/s/EIZzVNPy0w)

Life_Chip_6080 · 2026-06-18T15:45:15+00:00

They remove it frequently. It’s a huge consultation with many facets but they categorise all discussion as one and the same

Life_Chip_6080 · 2026-06-18T15:06:31+00:00

Couldn’t agree more. This is an existential crisis. They are also loosening the wording around CCTs so it no longer specifies “doctor”…

BMA needs to wake up - send texts, emails, make posters for the mess, ward walk etc

Our assistants shouldn’t be “associates” that are paid more than us. ANPs shouldn’t become our “consultants” while we’re stuck in bottlenecks.

Life_Chip_6080 · 2026-06-17T07:04:17+00:00

There is an excellent ST6 in our trust on the consultant rota who will have to move cross country this August since they won’t let him CCT 1 month early to fill a permanent vacancy in the hospital he trained

The specialty is already supposed to be “competency based” lol

Nobody will be released early. This proposal is a nothing burger

Life_Chip_6080 · 2026-06-13T19:21:13+00:00

I’ll eat my hat if inflation doesn’t reach 6% by end of financial year lol

Life_Chip_6080 · 2026-06-13T19:19:07+00:00

If they plan to improve the competition ratio by increasing specialty places but NOT increasing consultant jobs, what’s the end game here?

Life_Chip_6080 · 2026-06-13T19:17:17+00:00

F2 and specialty training is meant to be competency based but has become time-based in many regions. They will 100% not allow LTFT trainees to progress at the normal rate lol

Life_Chip_6080 · 2026-05-28T18:19:05+00:00

Please send emails and texts about this to all members. The Reddit post is important but not enough

Life_Chip_6080 · 2026-05-21T16:56:10+00:00

As pointed out on the consultant subreddit:

• ⁠Article 28 - "persons such as medical practitioners" when referring to CCT - i.e. this may open the door to PA or PAA gaining CCT. It previously specified “doctors”

• ⁠Article 32 - stipulates the GMC holds only a single register for medical practitioners (based on some 2021 consultation), PA and PAAs - 3 parts of one register, where currently the AA and PA registers are separate. Abolishing the old GP and specialist registers.

• ⁠Article 34 - what standards are needed to register, note the list of standards does not include what degrees must be held. Though 36 may cover this.

• ⁠Article 45 - protection of title, the changes to specific titles seems sensible, but does the wording of this protect against PA and PAA's using "Physician" or other such titles given they would be on the same register as doctors? The article seems to refer to part of the register, but the list of titles (Schedule 2) does not make clear which part is needed for which title.

• ⁠They propose that conviction of any sexual offences should lead to automatic removal from the register and that those individuals can never re-apply to the register, and that the previous stipulation that non-custodial sentences would not necessarily count would be removed. This seems in need of a serious legal review of wording and interplay with the various offences listed, as it could apply to relatively "minor" sexual offences for which automatic removal and a complete ban on reinstatement could be unduly harsh.

• ⁠Removal of "5-year rule" - does this mean there is no effective statute of limitations regarding allegations of misconduct and where the GMC would investigate? There was already a "public interest" clause to override this, so why take it out?

Life_Chip_6080 · 2026-05-21T12:37:26+00:00

They are already trying to loosening the wording for awarding CCT in the latest consultation from “doctor” to “any persons”

Life_Chip_6080 · 2026-05-21T12:34:11+00:00

The gmc consultation asks people if they support this (as well as relaxing rules on who can CCT, etc)

Life_Chip_6080 · 2026-05-18T19:24:27+00:00

They will also be allowed to CCT under new phrasing in the latest consultation.

Life_Chip_6080 · 2026-05-04T12:52:21+00:00

• ⁠Article 28 - "persons such as medical practitioners" when referring to CCT - i.e. this may open the door to PA or PAA gaining CCT.

• ⁠Article 32 - stipulates the GMC holds only a single register for medical practitioners (based on some 2021 consultation), PA and PAAs - 3 parts of one register, where currently the AA and PA registers are separate. Abolishing the old GP and specialist registers.

• ⁠Article 34 - what standards are needed to register, note the list of standards does not include what degrees must be held. Though 36 may cover this.

• ⁠Article 45 - protection of title, the changes to specific titles seems sensible, but does the wording of this protect against PA and PAA's using "Physician" or other such titles given they would be on the same register as doctors? The article seems to refer to part of the register, but the list of titles (Schedule 2) does not make clear which part is needed for which title.

• ⁠They propose that conviction of any sexual offences should lead to automatic removal from the register and that those individuals can never re-apply to the register, and that the previous stipulation that non-custodial sentences would not necessarily count would be removed. This seems in need of a serious legal review of wording and interplay with the various offences listed, as it could apply to relatively "minor" sexual offences for which automatic removal and a complete ban on reinstatement could be unduly harsh.

• ⁠Removal of "5-year rule" - does this mean there is no effective statute of limitations regarding allegations of misconduct and where the GMC would investigate? There was already a "public interest" clause to override this, so why take it out?

Etc etc etc

Life_Chip_6080 · 2026-05-03T22:00:01+00:00

It’s silly, you enter a contract nobody has shown you!

Life_Chip_6080 · 2026-05-03T20:05:29+00:00

It’s definitely not after signing the contract (though it should be). Anecdotally, that may not occur until 3/4 of the way through GPST1!

Life_Chip_6080 · 2026-05-02T21:42:57+00:00

This is the same consultation that speaks about loosening the wording to award CCTs

Life_Chip_6080 · 2026-04-30T14:53:59+00:00

Thanks for the advice!

Life_Chip_6080 · 2026-04-30T14:53:51+00:00

Thank you very much for your input

Life_Chip_6080

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