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Exclusive GPs are set to be required to encourage patients to go back to work as part of their responsibilities to the GMC, under changes to the regulator's core ethical guidance drafted with input from the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP).
A draft revised version of Good Medical Practice, presented to GMC Council last week, included a new duty ?to encourage patients with long-term conditions to stay in, or return to, employment'.
A GMC spokesperson told Pulse a submission from the DWP had fed into the draft document, amid fears from GPs over ?pressure from Government' to enlist doctors in the coalition's benefit crackdown.
http://www.pulsetoday.co.uk/main-co...22615/gps-face-gmc-duty-on-back-to-work-drive
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A draft revised version of Good Medical Practice, presented to GMC Council last week, included a new duty ?to encourage patients with long-term conditions to stay in, or return to, employment'.
A GMC spokesperson told Pulse a submission from the DWP had fed into the draft document, amid fears from GPs over ?pressure from Government' to enlist doctors in the coalition's benefit crackdown.
http://www.pulsetoday.co.uk/main-co...22615/gps-face-gmc-duty-on-back-to-work-drive
(requires free registration)