The MAG form (NHS England version 4.0 updated 2016) help text refers to the following external links, as sources of further guidance and information to support the medical appraisal process and the completion of the MAG form.

• NHS England – Medical appraisal guide (MAG)
• NHS England – Medical appraisal guide (MAG) model appraisal form
• NHS England – Information Management for Medical Revalidation in England
• GMC – Revalidation (designated body)
• GMC Online (due date of next revalidation)
• GMC – Supporting information for appraisal and revalidation
• GMC – Colleague and patient feedback for revalidation
• GMC – GMP Framework for appraisal and revalidation
• GMC – Insurance, indemnity and medico-legal support
• Academy of Medical Royal Colleges – Revalidation
• Academy of Medical Royal Colleges – Specialty Guidance for Appraisal and Revalidation
• National Patient Safety Agency (Significant events) – What is a Patient Safety Incident?

These same links are set out below under each relevant section of the form.

Instructions for using this form

• Medical appraisal guide (MAG)
• Medical appraisal guide (MAG) model appraisal form

Personal details

• Designated body
• Due date of next revalidation recommendation

Scope of work

• Supporting information for appraisal and revalidation
• Specialty Advice

Continuing professional development (CPD)

• CPD as supporting information
• Requirements of ‘Good Medical Practice’
• Role of the medical royal colleges and faculties in revalidation, including links to each specialty

Quality improvement activity

• Role of the medical royal colleges and faculties in revalidation, including links to each specialty
• Quality improvement activity as supporting information

Significant events

• Supporting information for appraisal and revalidation
• What Is A Patient Safety Incident?

Feedback from colleagues and patients

• Feedback from colleagues and patients as supporting information

Review of complaints and compliments

• Complaints and compliments as supporting information

Probity and health statements

• Requirements of ‘Good Medical Practice’ and a doctor’s probity and health obligations with regards to revalidation
• Making a health declaration

Additional information

• College specialty guidance

Appraisal checklist

Stand-alone interactive and printable versions of the Doctor’s medical appraisal checklist (NHS England 2016) are also available. This is intended as an aide memoire for doctors who are not using the MAG form or for doctors who would like a printed version including explanatory notes.

1. Medical Appraisal Guide: A guide to medical appraisal for revalidation in England, version 4 (NHS Revalidation Support Team, 2013 (reissued with updated hyperlinks September 2014))
2. Supporting information for appraisal and revalidation (GMC, 2012)
3. Specialty Guidance for Appraisal and Revalidation (Academy of Medical Royal Colleges)
4. Appraisal for revalidation: a guide to the process (Academy of Medical Royal Colleges)
5. Information Management for Medical Revalidation in England (NHS Revalidation Support Team, 2013)
6. Colleague and patient feedback for revalidation (GMC)
7. If this is your last appraisal before your revalidation is due, then you must have completed at least one formal patient and colleague feedback exercise, with reflection, in this revalidation cycle for it to be possible for the responsible officer to recommend your revalidation. If you have not done this you should raise this matter with your appraiser before finalising your submission, i.e. not at the appraisal meeting.
8. Statutory requirement for doctors to have insurance or indemnity (GMC 2015)
9. The Good medical practice framework for appraisal and revalidation (GMC, 2013)

Summary of appraisal discussion

• Attributes related to the four domains of ‘Good Medical Practice’