Academy of Royal Medical Colleges

Roles performed by Colleges to the Benefits of the NHS: Supplementary Evidence to the Doctors’ and Dentists’ Review Body Clinical Excellence Awards Review

Training future consultants and GPs

 

 

  • Setting curricula for doctors in training – Colleges develop and maintain all the 59 specialty curricula + Foundation Curriculum for post-graduate training of doctors in the UK.
  • Assessment – designing the Workplace Based Assessments and the examinations that post graduate doctors must pass to ensure trained doctors can deliver high quality care for patients in NHS. 
  • Participating in annual review of trainees in UK.
  • Delivering training courses for trainee doctors which form part of their education.
  • Quality assuring overseas doctors who come for time-limited periods of training in the UK under the Government’s Medical Training Initiative (MTI).

 

    Academy of Royal Medical Colleges: Training future consultants and GPs

 

 


Ensuring and improving quality of patient care

 

 

  • Setting clinical standards - Producing guidelines and advice for doctors on best clinical practice in their specialties to help improve and develop clinical practice for the benefit of patients.
  • Disseminating good practice – Ensuring that latest standards and research is disseminated and adopted as widely as possible.
  • Research/audit/Peer review - Undertaking and promoting research, audit and peer review on clinical issues seeking to ensure and enhance the evidence base for practice.
  • Service reviews – Colleges undertake reviews of the performance of services/departments at the request of Trusts where problems have been identified or as part of service improvement programmes.
  • Consultant appointments committees - College representatives sit on consultant appointment committees and review job descriptions at the request of trusts to ensure those appointed are properly trained to fulfil the duties of the post.
  • Continuing professional development - Colleges provide a variety of training and CPD for consultants as well as doctors in training.
  • Revalidation- Colleges have a major role in setting the standards doctors must achieve to continue to hold a licence from the General Medical Council and may play a role in quality assuring the outcomes.

 

     Academy of Royal Medical Colleges: Ensuring and improving quality of patient care

Workforce Planning

 

 

  • Data gathered by Colleges forms the major part of national workforce planning processes.
  • Colleges support the process for the detailed determination of specialty training numbers.

 

 

    Academy of Royal Medical Colleges: Workforce Planning

Advice

 

 

  • Local - Providing the highest standard expert advice to individuals and employers through local advisors, specialty visits, panels, investigations
  • National - Colleges are asked to provide expert advice and input on clinical and educational issues to policy development by the four UK health departments and other national bodies such as NICE and the GMC
  • International – Colleges advise on EU standards and regulations on education, training and clinical issues
  • Patient information, advice and engagement– Colleges provide a significant amount of information and advice for patients and the public through publications, web information and engagement with patient groups.
  • These activities are essential not only to the future development of the NHS but also to its day to day functioning. If Colleges were not providing these services through their members’ involvement and expertise, the NHS would need to find and pay other providers for them.

 

    Academy of Royal Medical Colleges: Advice

 

 

 

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