A Spartacus moment for public health physicians?

The General Medical Council’s (GMC) Good Medical Practice sets out the standards required of doctors registered with it. Its latest version will come into force on 30 January 2024.1 Among the changes from previous versions is an addition to the section “Responding to safety risks” that says, “If you have a formal leadership or management role, you must take active steps to create an environment in which people can talk about errors and concerns safely,” with an earlier part of the same section specifying that risks can arise from “policies and systems.” We contend that this may pose problems for many of our public health medicine colleagues.Most public health doctors do not see individual patients. Rather, they work to safeguard and improve the health of entire populations. Thus, the definitive book on the history of chief medical officers in the UK, which is also co-authored by a former holder of…
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