06.11.12
Rooting out malpractice
Revalidation will pay for its own implementation within 10 years, new research indicates.
Improved patient care and a reduction in compensation claims – which currently cost the NHS millions each year – will ensure the costs of annual checks are covered, within the next decade.
It is the latest argument hoped to persuade doctors who see the introduction of such checks as an administrative burden which will not deliver the expected results.
Anything that can be done to improve care to such a degree that litigation payouts are reduced by 3% should be seriously considered, aside from the more general need for regular checks on such an important profession.
But then there are those who suggest the doctors who are involved in malpractice will not be effectively identified through revalidation, rendering the exercise futile. Doctors may be prepared to go along with the plans, especially if they have nothing to hide, but it is important to consider their arguments, and work to ensure bad practice can be discovered through revalidation.
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