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International Journal for Quality in Health Care 15:375-376 (2003)
© 2003 International Society for Quality in Health Care

Conference Paper

Improving professional competence—the way ahead?

G. Catto

Guy’s, King’s College and St Thomas’ Hospitals’ Medical & Dental School, London, UK

Globally, there has been considerable interest from the public, medical profession, and governments in ensuring that doctors are fit for practice. Appropriate accountability for the profession has become an important contemporary issue. With doubts emerging on the effectiveness of professionally led regulation, a variety of different mechanisms have been devised to ensure that patients receive appropriate and good quality care. This paper reviews regulation of the medical profession and indicates the way in which doctors in the UK are held accountable for their practice.

Keywords: competence, fitness for practice, medical education, quality standards, professional regulation

Address reprint requests to Professor Sir Graeme Catto, MD DSc FRCP FmedSci, FRSE, Dean, Guy’s, King’s College and St Thomas’ Hospitals’ Medical & Dental School, 57 Waterloo Road, London SE1 8WA, UK. E-mail: graeme.catto{at}kcl.ac.uk

Based on a Plenary Address to the 19th International Conference of The International Society for Quality in Health Care, Paris, France, 7 November 2002.


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