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Draft General and Specialist Medical Practice (Education, Training and Qualifications) Order 2003
The draft General and Specialist Medical Practice (Education, Training and Qualifications) Order 2003 is an affirmative instrument. The minister is with us this afternoon to speak to us on the order.
The order will establish a new independent body, the postgraduate medical education and training board, with responsibilities for the United Kingdom. The order will also provide a framework to improve the supervision of general and specialist training, leading to the award of a certificate of completion of training in both general and specialist practice. Further, it will establish a general practitioner register and a specialist register and require that a doctor working in the national health service anywhere in the UK as a consultant or general practitioner be included in the relevant register.
That the Health and Community Care Committee, in consideration of the draft General and Specialist Medical Practice (Education, Training and Qualifications) Order 2003, recommends that the Order be approved.
Various royal colleges seem to have had some concerns, but those concerns appear to have been allayed. The Subordinate Legislation Committee had nothing to report and no members' comments have been received.
Motion agreed to.
Feeding Stuffs (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2003 (SSI 2003/101).
The next instrument is the Feeding Stuffs (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2003 (SSI 2003/101). The Subordinate Legislation Committee had no comments on the regulations, no members' comments have been received and no motion to annul has been lodged. The recommendation is that the committee does not wish to make any recommendation on the instrument. Is that agreed?