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Shape of Training Inaction

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Dear General Medical Council,

I am making this request under the FOIA.

Please provide the following information:
1) In 2013, you published the “Shape of Training” report. This included recommendations to move the point of full registration for home graduates to the point of graduation from medical school. Your report also advised that the work to do this could begin immediately.

1a) Please provide all data, reports, correspondence relating to the above matter and any work done/decisions made since 2013.

1b) You may instead answer this as correspondence (the question being: over a decade on, why has this change not yet occurred in spite of the timescale stating immediately?) if your assessment of the request 1a is too costly.

Yours faithfully,

Alan Madonna

Dear General Medical Council,

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Yours faithfully,

Alan Madonna

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Rydym yn gweithio gyda meddygon, cleifion a rhanddeiliaid eraill i
gynorthwyo gofal da a diogel i gleifion ar draws y DU. Rydym yn gosod y
safonau y bydd angen i feddygon a’r rhai sy’n eu hyfforddi eu bodloni, ac
yn eu helpu i’w cyflawni. Os bydd pryderon efallai na fydd y safonau hyn
yn cael eu cyflawni neu y gallai hyder y cyhoedd mewn meddygon fod mewn
perygl, gallwn ymchwilio, a gweithredu os oes angen.

Efallai bod y neges e-bost hon yn cynnwys gwybodaeth freiniol neu
gyfrinachol, y dylid ei defnyddio at y diben y’i hanfonwyd yn unig.

Os nad chi yw’r derbynnydd neu os ydych chi wedi cael yr e-bost hwn mewn
camgymeriad, peidiwch â’i ddarllen, argraffu, ail-anfon, storio na
gweithredu mewn ffordd sy’n dibynnu arni neu unrhyw atodiadau os gwelwch
yn dda. Dylech anfon e-bost at yr anfonwr ac yna, ei ddileu ar unwaith.

Mae’r Cyngor Meddygol Cyffredinol yn elusen gofrestredig yng Nghymru a
Lloegr (1089278) ac yn Yr Alban (SC037750)

Mae croeso i chi gysylltu â ni yn Gymraeg. Byddwn yn ymateb yn Gymraeg,
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Standards. You are welcome to contact us in Welsh and we will respond in
Welsh, without this causing additional delay.

In the meantime, if you want any further information about the GMC, please
visit our website: [1]Home - GMC (gmc-uk.org)

General Medical Council

We work with doctors, patients, and other stakeholders to support good,
safe patient care across the UK. We set the standards doctors and those
who train them need to meet, and help them achieve them. If there are
concerns these standards may not be met or that public confidence in
doctors may be at risk, we can investigate, and take action if needed.

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only be used for the purpose for which it has been sent.

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do not read, print, re-transmit, store or act in reliance on it or any
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The General Medical Council is a charity registered in England and Wales
(1089278) and in Scotland (SC037750)

You are welcome to contact us in Welsh. We will respond in Welsh, without
this causing additional delay.

_________________________________________________________________

Cyngor Meddygol Cyffredinol

Rydym yn gweithio gyda meddygon, cleifion a rhanddeiliaid eraill i
gynorthwyo gofal da a diogel i gleifion ar draws y DU. Rydym yn gosod y
safonau y bydd angen i feddygon a’r rhai sy’n eu hyfforddi eu bodloni, ac
yn eu helpu i’w cyflawni. Os bydd pryderon efallai na fydd y safonau hyn
yn cael eu cyflawni neu y gallai hyder y cyhoedd mewn meddygon fod mewn
perygl, gallwn ymchwilio, a gweithredu os oes angen.

Efallai bod y neges e-bost hon yn cynnwys gwybodaeth freiniol neu
gyfrinachol, y dylid ei defnyddio at y diben y’i hanfonwyd yn unig.

Os nad chi yw’r derbynnydd neu os ydych chi wedi cael yr e-bost hwn mewn
camgymeriad, peidiwch â’i ddarllen, argraffu, ail-anfon, storio na
gweithredu mewn ffordd sy’n dibynnu arni neu unrhyw atodiadau os gwelwch
yn dda. Dylech anfon e-bost at yr anfonwr ac yna, ei ddileu ar unwaith.

Mae’r Cyngor Meddygol Cyffredinol yn elusen gofrestredig yng Nghymru a
Lloegr (1089278) ac yn Yr Alban (SC037750)

Mae croeso i chi gysylltu â ni yn Gymraeg. Byddwn yn ymateb yn Gymraeg,
heb i hyn achosi oedi ychwanegol.

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Dear Mr Madonna,

Your information request - IR1-4592358457

Thank you for your email dated 10 September.

How we will consider your request

We’re going to consider your request under the Freedom of Information Act
2000 (FOIA). The FOIA gives us 20 working days to respond, but we’ll come
back to you as soon as we can.

Yours sincerely

Information Access Team

General Medical Council

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M3 3AW

From: Alan Madonna <[FOI #1173236 email]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 10, 2024 12:38 PM
To: FOI <[email address]>
Subject: Freedom of Information request - Shape of Training Inaction

Dear General Medical Council, I am making this request under the FOIA.
Please provide the following information: 1) In 2013, you published the
“Shape of Training” report. This included recommendations to move the
point of full registration for

Dear General Medical Council,

I am making this request under the FOIA.

Please provide the following information:

1) In 2013, you published the “Shape of Training” report. This included recommendations to move the point of full registration for home graduates to the point of graduation from medical school. Your report also advised that the work to do this could begin immediately.

1a) Please provide all data, reports, correspondence relating to the above matter and any work done/decisions made since 2013.

1b) You may instead answer this as correspondence (the question being: over a decade on, why has this change not yet occurred in spite of the timescale stating immediately?) if your assessment of the request 1a is too costly.

Yours faithfully,

Alan Madonna

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