A GP was suspended for 4months in 2005 from the medical register after a Fitness to Practise
panel found him guilty of serious professional misconduct. A female patient had consulted …

Patricia Hewitt’s announcement1 that doctors’ unique privilege to prescribe from the entire
formulary will in future be usurped by nurses and pharmacists, subject to checks on …

*** We are glad of the opportunity to apologise to Dr Shalet and his colleagues for missing
their" short communication,"'which appeared some time after the paper we discussed and …

Total parenteral nutrition at home: the implicationsfor a rural practice Page 1 DOMICILIARY CARE
- 2 Total parenteral nutrition at home: the implicationsfor a rural practice BRIAN D. KEIGHLEY …

On 30 September 2005 the medical regulatory body with a famously forgettable acronym, the
Joint Committee on Postgraduate Training for General Practice, was gently and sadly laid …

In its 40 years of existence the Royal College of General Practitioners has engendered
emotional responses from many doctors in general practice. Those emotions have varied from …

The Fifth Report of the Shipman Inquiry 1 and the government's immediate response, setting
up a review under Sir Liam Donaldson, have left the whole concept of revalidation in a state …

There is no doubt that the general practitioner's job description has changed over the years,
and the argument about what doctors who work beyond the hospital gate actually do for …

A favourite fixture in Brian Keighley’s calendar was his annual gig as doctor for the Drymen
Agricultural Show, in Stirlingshire, central Scotland. After the last prizes were awarded, …

An acutely embarrassing experience has led me to wonder why it is that an organisation
with such laudable aims as the Royal College of General Practitioners should stimulate …