Establish minimum clinical practice levels for clinicians in part-time managerial roles
Bristol Heart Inquiry · Bristol Heart Inquiry — Final Report · Issued 18 July 2001
Source — verbatim from the inquiry
●Inquiry recommendation
To protect patients, in the case of clinicians who take on managerial roles but wish to continue to practise as clinicians, experts together with managers from the NHS should issue advice as to the minimum level of regular clinical practice necessary to enable a clinician to provide care of a good quality. Clinicians not maintaining this level of practice should not be entitled to offer clinical care. This rule should also apply to all other clinicians who, for whatever reason, are not in full-time practice, and not only to those in part-time managerial roles.
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Response — verbatim from government
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