The RST has produced Supporting Doctors to Provide Safer Healthcare (version 2, March 2013) to help responsible officers understand and enact their statutory duty to respond effectively to concerns about a doctor’s practice.

This document is aimed at designated bodies, responsible officers and other personnel involved in responding to concerns. It provides a generic framework and lists the essential components of an organisational policy to support a consistent, equitable and fair process.

Note: Supporting Doctors to Provide Safer Healthcare (version 2, March 2013) replaces version 1 published in March 2012. Version 2 has been updated to include discussion of work carried out in this area during 2012-13.

• Supporting Doctors to Provide Safer Healthcare (version 2, March 2013)

The following documents have been produced to be read alongside the publication above:

• Responding to Concerns: Gauging the level of concern

This model for establishing the level of concern has been provided with the help of NHS Leicester City and national stakeholders.

The following documents have been produced to be read alongside the publication above:

• Responding to Concerns: Person specification for case investigators
• Responding to Concerns: Data collection
• Responding to Concerns: Case study 1: Secondary care – surgical
• Responding to Concerns: Case study 2: Secondary care – medical
• Responding to Concerns: Case study 3: Primary care
• Responding to Concerns: Case study 4: Primary care

Further information

• Tackling Concerns Locally (Department of Health, 2009)
• Maintaining High Professional Standards in the Modern NHS (Department of Health, 2005)
• Remediation Report (Department of Health, 2009)
• Raising and Acting on Concerns about Patient Safety (GMC, 2012)