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Time for hard decisions on patient‐centred professionalism
Author(s) -
Irvine Donald H
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/j.1326-5377.2004.tb06269.x
Subject(s) - revalidation , general partnership , compliance (psychology) , continuing professional development , nursing , code (set theory) , medicine , professional responsibility , professional conduct , public relations , medical education , psychology , professional development , political science , law , social psychology , set (abstract data type) , computer science , programming language
Patients want doctors who are competent, respectful, honest and able to communicate with them. That is patient‐centred professionalism. Professional self‐regulation, as practised hitherto, has failed to achieve this for all patients. In the United Kingdom, a new way of looking at professional regulation has been developed — as a partnership between public and doctors. At its heart is a code of good practice, agreed between public and profession, in which doctors’ licence to practise is conditional on regularly demonstrating continuing compliance. That means revalidation–relicensure.