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I once worked as a lead physician assessing a team of 35 doctors. The appraisal included 1/2 day sitting in with clinic and feedback Examining a sample or 20 notes and standardized scoring and feedback Complaints/compliments review "360" feedback (I think the term is misleading because the best you can get is multisource feedback, peers, reception, admin etc I don't think you ever get honest feedback upwards.) PDP review (last years and agreeing the PDP ahead) It was a minimum of 2 days work per doctor (not done all at one sitting thank God!) and if there was any coaching/persuading/improving required considerably more than that. I don't think I could have put my name to a document saying they were up to a standard with less covered. But then does the mooted NHS appraisal actually involve the appraiser stating in his opinion the appraised is up to standard, or is there the usual weasel words around such things? "The above Dr has satisfactorily completed NHS appraisal. Satisfactory completion of NHS appraisal does not imply that the NHS warrants the Dr is fit to practice and acceptably good at his job" It strikes me that faced with such a lame assed system one might reasonably expect our esteemed professional bodies to step up to the mark with something akin to a kite mark or ISO ( I mean for the doctors clinical appraisal, not the practice), with compliance actually demonstrating high standards and acting as a tick for the NHS wide process. On 26 April 2010 07:42, Paul Caldwell <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > for me the major critiscm is that Appraisal now and proposed doesnt look > directly at what one does with ones pts, surely what maintaining standards > is what its all about. i suspect that this is because doing so is > difficult logistically and expensive, whereas time on CPD, counting numbers > of complaints, and a piss-poor audit are easy and cheap. > >> Date: Sun, 25 Apr 2010 12:25:26 +0100 >> From: [log in to unmask] >> Subject: Re: 2 assertions on appraisal and (re)validation >> To: [log in to unmask] >> >> On Sun, 2010-04-25 at 12:07 +0100, Trefor Roscoe wrote: >> >> >> > The CPD you do will be determined by yourself in discussion with your >> > appraiser at your annual appraisals. NOTHING will be COMPULSORY. >> >> It is possible that some of your appraiser colleagues have a more >> definite view on this, one suggested to me that I should do some very >> particular things in a precise manner, recording them on a computer >> system that would, he wrote, make it easy for him to keep track of my >> efforts, and that this was what was required by legislation about >> revalidation. >> >> I disabused him. >> >> He went quiet, and soem time later claimed to have sent an email telling >> me and others that he was no longer available to do my appraisal. >> >> Someone relatively sensible and effective then was appointed, and we >> exchanged views on a number of things. >> >> Appraisal remains unappraised by those who claim it is useful and that >> science informs their actions. >> >> I remain unsurprised. >> >> And unimpressed. >> >> >> -- >> A > > ________________________________ > Get a free e-mail account with Hotmail. Sign-up now.