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The Fifth Report

CONTENTS
FOREWORD
SUMMARY
RECOMMENDATIONS
CHAPTER ONE - Introduction
CHAPTER TWO - The Conduct of Phase Two, Stage Four of the Inquiry
CHAPTER THREE - The Appointment of General Practitioners and the Administration of General Practice prior to 1980: Shipman's Appointment to the Donneybrook Practice
CHAPTER FOUR - The Monitoring of General Practitioners from 1980 to 1998: the Arrangements for Monitoring in Tameside
CHAPTER FIVE - Developments in the Arrangements for Monitoring General Practitioners since 1998
CHAPTER SIX - Complaints and Discipline prior to April 1996
CHAPTER SEVEN - Complaints and Discipline after 1996
CHAPTER EIGHT - Raising Concerns about Shipman
CHAPTER NINE - Raising Concerns: the Role of the Practice Staff
CHAPTER TEN - Raising Concerns: the Death of Mrs Renate Overton Revisited
CHAPTER ELEVEN - Raising Concerns: the Way Forward
CHAPTER TWELVE - Clinical Governance
CHAPTER THIRTEEN - Single-Handed Practitioners
CHAPTER FOURTEEN - The Monitoring of Mortality Rates among the Patients of General Practitioners
CHAPTER FIFTEEN - The General Medical Council
CHAPTER SIXTEEN - The General Medical Council's Handling of Shipman's Case in 1976
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN - Serious Professional Misconduct and Seriously Deficient Performance: Problems of Definition
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN - The General Medical Council Conduct Procedures: Initial Stages Conducted by the Administrative Staff
CHAPTER NINETEEN - The General Medical Council's Conduct Procedures: Screening
CHAPTER TWENTY - The General Medical Council Conduct Procedures: the Preliminary Proceedings Committee
CHAPTER TWENTY ONE - The General Medical Council Conduct Procedures: the Professional Conduct Committee
CHAPTER TWENTY TWO - The General Medical Council's Health Procedures
CHAPTER TWENTY THREE - How the General Medical Council Deals with Cases of Drug Abuse
CHAPTER TWENTY FOUR - The General Medical Council's Performance Procedures
CHAPTER TWENTY FIVE - The General Medical Council's New Fitness to Practise Procedures
CHAPTER TWENTY SIX - Revalidation
CHAPTER TWENTY SEVEN - Proposals for Change
APPENDICES


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