Doctors: Performance Appraisal
(asked on 24th May 2016) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will estimate the annual cost to the NHS of General Medical Council appraisals.
This question was answered on 27th May 2016
In November 2012, the Department published an analysis of the costs and benefits of medical revalidation in England: “Medical Revalidation – Costs and Benefits”. This estimated that revalidation would result in additional costs of £97 million per year in England, over the ten-year period starting in 2013.