This report summarises the discussions of 11 consultation events, ‘21st Century Doctor: Your future, your choices’, run from October 2009 to April 2010. An earlier series of events, ‘Do Doctors Have a Future?’ ran from May 2006 to April 2007
and looked at the way that doctors viewed the challenges ... and Acquiring and ensuring a professional approach is a key part of becoming a doctor. But how can doctors define and adopt this professional attitude and ensure that it is kept up to date in the same way as their clinical skills? And how should professionalism adapt and change to reflect ...
The white paper ‘Equity and excellence: liberating the NHS’ (Department of Health 2010) sets out a wide-ranging set of proposals to reform the NHS. The King’s Fund and Doctors.net.uk have carried out a survey to ascertain doctors’ opinions of the impact of these reforms. This paper summarises the main findings ...