Doctors: EU Countries
(asked on 17th December 2015) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he plans to take to ensure that implementation of European Professional Cards for doctors does not inhibit his Department's ability to perform background checks on doctors from other European countries.
This question was answered on 5th January 2016
The European Professional Card (EPC) will not be introduced for doctors until 2018 at the earliest.
The European Commission will review the effectiveness of the EPC process for the first wave of professions, which includes nurses, pharmacists and physiotherapists, before any decision is taken to extend the EPC to other professions.