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Maintaining High Professional Standards in the Modern NHS: a framework for the initial handling of concerns about doctors and dentists in the NHS
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Document type:Guidance
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Author:Department of Health
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Published date:29 December 2003
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Primary audience:Professionals
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Publication format:Electronic only
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Gateway reference:2196
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Series number:HSC 2003/012
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Copyright holder:Crown copyright
This document contains the Restriction of Practice and Exclusion from Work Directions 2003 which require NHS Trusts and other NHS bodies to make changes in their procedures to bring them into line with the principles of the framework.
- Revised framework document and direction (2005 edition)
- Download framework document and direction (2003 edition) (PDF, 28K)
- Download introduction and explanatory note (2003) (PDF, 76K)
- HSC 2003/012 - Maintaining high professional standards in the modern NHS: a framework for the initial handling of concerns about doctors and dentists in the NHS
Issued under cover of Health Service Circular, HSC 2003/012.
Update
In February 2005, the Department of Health published a revised framework document, Maintaining high professional standards in the modern NHS. The new framework was accompanied by Directions on disciplinary procedures 2005.
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