Returning home now from today’s RCGP Focus Group on Revalidation for Sessional GPs. On the one hand, a very exciting meeting. The college has done excellent job in assembling an eclectic mixture of Sessional GPs, and the 3-hour workshop certainly raised a lot of specific issues. But on the other hand, somewhat depressing! That’s not a criticism at all; in fact, so effective was the format – a progress report on where the college is at with revalidation, an excellent overview by the GPC Subcommittee on issues faced by Sessional GPs and my own overview of the NASGP’s aFGP Scheme and locum support teams – that the subsequent break-out groups were able to dig very deep into specific issues that locums may be facing over the next few years. The deeper one digs, however, the more complicated the solution seems to appear – at least to me. I have no doubt that a solution is deliverable, but suspect it’s going involve a lot more development than we’d hoped.
February 20, 2009
Preparing for next Thursday’s revalidation meeting
Now gearing up for next Thursday’s meeting at the RCGP to discuss revalidation for locum GPs. last month I emailed all our groups seeking 6 delegates to join me, and received 10 very enthusiastic replies. For those that are unable to attend, we’ve ‘buddied up’ online in a collaborative file-share area to discuss papers, ideas etc. I think we’re knocking on an open door here, but need to define a simple strategy that will actually deliver tangible support. The solution is going to cost, but who is going to pay for it…
