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The General Medical Council (GMC) is a public body that maintains the official register of medical practitioners within the United Kingdom. Its chief responsibility is to "protect, promote and maintain the health and safety of the public" by controlling entry to the register, and suspending or removing members when necessary.
The Postgraduate Medical Education and Training Board (PMETB, also PGME) was the non-departmental public body responsible for postgraduate medical education and training in the United Kingdom (UK). [1] The General Medical Council (GMC) took over the functions of PMETB on 1 April 2010 when the two organisations merged.
PLAB is a two part assessment that overseas doctors (or international medical graduates), from outside the European Economic Area and Switzerland, usually need to pass before they can legally practise medicine in the UK. [1] It is conducted by the General Medical Council of the United Kingdom. The test is designed to assess the depth of ...
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If at the end of the GMC's case the evidence is such that the allegations appear unprovable a doctor can make an application to discontinue the case under Rule 17(2)(g). [33] If the case does proceed a doctor can adduce relevant evidence and any witnesses in support of their defence. They will likely be cross-examined by the GMC's representative.
Those who were successful in the application could join the register from 1 August 2020. [84] In the pharmacist registration assessment of July 2021, 2,625 candidates sat the assessment for the first time, of which 259 were provisionally registered pharmacists. 2,189 candidates passed it, of which 172 were provisionally registered pharmacists. [85]
The Westminster government had introduced IER to Northern Ireland in 2002 in the Electoral Fraud (Northern Ireland) Act 2002, but England, Wales and Scotland continued to use a system of householder registration. [3] The UK's politically independent Electoral Commission had been pushing for such a reform for some time. [4]