TY - JOUR T1 - If Big Brother is to Assess Me, I Want it to be my Big Brother JF - British Journal of General Practice JO - Br J Gen Pract SP - 887 LP - 887 VL - 56 IS - 532 AU - Philip D Welsby Y1 - 2006/11/01 UR - http://bjgp.org/content/56/532/887.abstract N2 - The activities of Harold Shipman have highlighted the need for assessment of GPs. GPs are to be assessed but no one knows how, by whom, and using what criteria. There seems little doubt that some form of inspector will be literally, and not metaphorically, knocking on doors, demanding entry, to make assessments that could result in action(s) of currently uncertain scope. There is, I am informed, much anxiety.To assess a GP it seems we need a feasible, acceptable, rigorous scheme of assessment(s), general and specific, flexible yet robust, set in context of various practice types, which yield results and permit interventions despite the difficulty of … ER -