Non-GMC Members of the Professional Conduct Committee and Committee on Professional Performance

Conditions of Service

Application

1. These conditions apply to all training and service as a member of the Professional Conduct Committee (PCC) and the Committee on Professional Performance (CPP).

Term of Service

2. Your appointment is for 5 years, effective from the point at which you are deemed by the GMC to have completed pre-service induction training.

3. Subject to the Committee's caseload, you must be available to be empanelled for at least 20 days each calendar year from date of appointment. In scheduling these 20 days, the GMC will endeavour to empanel you for sessions which do not conflict with your other engagements; but the final decision over when you are empanelled rests with the GMC.

4. If you have to cancel a commitment to empanelment, you must give the GMC as much notice as possible. You should cancel only in exceptional and wholly unavoidable circumstances.

Fees and expenses

5. The GMC will pay you a fee of £250 for each day or part thereof on which you attend for Committee training or you serve on a panel. The GMC will pay you £125 for each day you are empanelled and which is subsequently cancelled with less than 10 days notice. In addition the GMC will pay for travelling and subsistence expenses properly incurred by you within the limits as set out on the relevant claim form. All other costs and expenses other than travel and subsistence are included in the daily rate.

Confidentiality

6. In carrying out your duties as a member of the PCC and CPP, you will receive information, much of it of a highly sensitive nature. You must not (other than in proper discharge of your duties as a member of the PCC and CPP, or as otherwise directed by the GMC) directly or indirectly

a) disclose to any person; or

b) use or exploit for your own purposes or those of any other person

confidential information which you receive or comes into your possession in the course of your duties as a member of the PCC and CPP.

7. For these purposes confidential information shall include (but not be limited to) any information relating to a PCC or CPP case, and any information which you might reasonably expect the GMC to regard as confidential.

8. You must make sure that you keep all information which you receive in the course of your duties as a member of the PCC and CPP safely and effectively protected against improper disclosure. You must also do your best to prevent unauthorised disclosure or use of confidential information by third parties.

9. On written demand by or on behalf of the GMC you must immediately return any information which is in material form to the GMC without keeping copies and must hand over to the GMC all notes or memoranda prepared by you or on your behalf (together with any copies).

10. Unless the GMC or a duly authorised person acting on its behalf gives you prior written consent, you must not make any public or press statement relating in any way either to a particular PCC or CPP hearing, or your service as a member of the PCC and CPP generally.

11. You must never discuss or disclose details of the PCC's or CPP's in camera deliberations.

12. If you are required to make any disclosure of confidential information by law, you must co-operate with the GMC regarding the manner of such disclosure and any legal action that the GMC may take to challenge the lawfulness of any such requirement.

Your status

13. You are an independent contractor and not an employee of the GMC. As such you have personal responsibility for disclosing to the relevant authorities any payments made to you by the GMC under these conditions.

14. The contract of which these conditions form part is personal to you. You may not assign or subcontract the contract or any rights or obligations under the contract.

Conflicts of Interest

15 You must maintain high standards of behaviour and propriety at all times.

16. In particular, in carrying out your duties as a member of the PCC and CPP you

17. You must inform the GMC immediately of any information which might call into question your fitness and suitability for remaining a member of the PCC or CPP.

18. You must not ask for or accept any inducement, gift or hospitality which might affect or be seen to affect a PCC or CPP hearing.

19. If you have or may appear to have any interest in or association or connection with any person (whether financial, organisational or personal) which may or does give rise to a conflict of interest or the suspicion of a conflict of interest, you must notify the GMC as soon as possible.

20. If you have personal knowledge of any doctor or patient in respect of whom you have received, will or are likely to receive information in the course of a PCC or CPP hearing, you must inform the GMC as soon as possible and shall take no further part in that hearing unless the GMC (or a duly authorised person acting on its behalf) gives you written consent.

Termination

21. The GMC reserves the right to terminate your appointment without notice for any breach of the above conditions, or for repeated cancellation of empanelments.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

I have read and understood the above conditions. I agree to abide by them in my service as a member of the PCC and CPP.

Signed ___________________________________

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