TY - JOUR T1 - July Focus JF - British Journal of General Practice JO - Br J Gen Pract SP - 474 LP - 474 DO - 10.3399/bjgp09X453477 VL - 59 IS - 564 AU - David Jewell Y1 - 2009/07/01 UR - http://bjgp.org/content/59/564/474.abstract N2 - Apologies (again) to our overseas readers, but this month the focus is on revalidation. It has been a long time coming. Ever since I started working as a GP nearly 30 years ago (and long before Harold Shipman's crimes came to light) it was inevitable that we should have to introduce some procedure to reassure our patients that we remained competent, as opposed to being able to say that we were, once upon a time. Even so, rumblings are being heard from disgruntled GPs, worried at the prospect of having to seek retraining, alarmed at the amount of work involved, or just disgruntled at having to jump through even more hoops. The RCGP launched its provisional plans for revalidation in April, and the whole package will be in place in April next year, or possibly later with the difficulties of getting all the relevant … ER -