Doctors to be tested in the UK for incompetence
In the UK, doctors will have to submit to checks every five years to ensure they are fit to practice and not a danger to patients under new rules. The regular testing will end the system under which 130,000 doctors, upon entering independent practice as a doctor or consultant, face no formal re-assessment of their competence, clinical skills or performance until they retire. The five-yearly "revalidation" of a doctor's license to practice is designed to catch rogue doctors and identify those who are dangerously incompetent. It follows a series of highly publicized medical scandals in the 1990s, in which patients were harmed by poorly performing doctors.
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