Summary of Supporting Information

Category / Description / Frequency etc / Specialty comments
1. GENERAL INFORMATION
Personal Details /
  • Demographic and relevant personal information included on the GMC Register
  • Professional and medical qualifications
/ Updated annually to cover the revalidation cycle / Mental Health Act status eg. approved clinician, Section 12 approval
Contextual information / Description of ‘whole’ practice or job plan including:
  • any extended (including private practice) and voluntary roles;
  • any exceptional circumstances during the revalidation cycle (e.g. absences from the UK medical work force, changes in work circumstances);
  • indemnity arrangements
/ Overview covering the revalidation cycle, with a full account of clinical roles in the current year
Annual Appraisal /
  • Access to (e.g. through appraisal portfolios or Form 4s) evidence of satisfactory annual appraisals;
  • Previous Personal Development Plans
  • Review of Personal Development Plans in the current year
/ Evidence for each year throughout the revalidation cycle
Statement of probity /
  • A signed self-declaration confirming that there are no probity issues
  • Declaration of any potential competing interests and any significant gifts
/ Annually
Statement of health and use of health care / A signed self-declaration confirming:
  • the absence of any medical condition that could pose a risk to patients
  • the doctor is in a position to receive independent impartial healthcare advice; and to access that health care appropriately
/ Annually
2A. PEER FEEDBACK
Multisource (colleague) feedback / The result of feedback from professional colleagues from the range of professional activities, using a validated and approved MSF tool / At least one in the revalidation cycle undertaken sufficiently early (e.g. by end of year three) to allow a second survey if issues are identified and addressed / The Royal College of Psychiatrists recommends the use of ACP 360 which has been developed for psychiatrists and allows for national benchmarking. The College recognises that psychiatrists may use other tools which meet GMC standards.
2B. PATIENT FEEDBACK
Patient surveys / The result of feedback from patients and, if appropriate, carers, using a validated and approved tool that covers a broad spectrum of professional attributes / At least one patient survey in the revalidation cycle undertaken sufficiently early (e.g. by end of year three) to allow a second survey if concerns are identified and addressed / The Royal College of Psychiatrists recommends the use of ACP 360 which has been developed for psychiatrists and allows for national benchmarking. The College recognises that psychiatrists may use other tools which meet GMC standards.
It is expected that most psychiatrists will collect patient feedback, using a range of tools, on more than one occasion in the 5 year cycle.
Complaints /
  • Either a declaration of absence of validated formal complaints; or a summary of the main issues raised in each complaint
  • The learning gained
  • Any practice change resulting
/ All formal and validated complaints / Psychiatrists should document and reflect on each complaint and discuss appropriate action at appraisal.
Compliments / A summary of compliments received from patients or carers / Annually updated
3. REVIEW OF PRACTICE
Clinical audit / Evidence of effective participation in clinical audit or equivalent quality improvement exercise / At least one full audit cycle or quality improvement exercise, carried out to HQIP/Academy quality standards, within each five-year revalidation period. / The Royal College of Psychiatrists recommends the completion two audits of significant clinical areas of practice over a 5 year cycle.
Case review or discussion / A documented account of interesting or challenging cases that a doctor has discussed with a peer, another specialist, or within a multidisciplinary team or morbidity/mortality meeting, from which there has been either confirmation of good practice, or identifiable new learning. / Two examples per year. / The Royal College of Psychiatrists recommends that 10 case based discussions be undertaken over a 5 year cycle; identified action points should be incorporated in a personal development plan. The College recommends using the pro forma contained in Revalidation Guidance for Psychiatrists
Clinical incidents and SUIs /
  • A summary of all clinical incidents in which you have been involved, and
  • A short anonymised description of up to two of these per year with reflection, learning and action taken.
  • A short anonymised description of all Serious Untoward Incidents (SUIs) or Root Cause Analyses in which you have played a part (including as investigator) with reflection, learning and action taken.
/ Annual summary
Two per year, if available
All during the year / The Royal College of Psychiatrists recommends using the pro forma contained in Revalidation Guidance for Psychiatrists to assist reflection on each significant event and discussion of appropriate action at appraisal.
Clinical Outcomes /
  • Where robust, attributable and validated data on clinical outcomes are available, this should be provided.
  • Morbidity and mortality statistics, complication rates, etc, where these are recorded routinely for local or National reports
/ Annually, compared with national benchmarks where these are available. / The Royal College of Psychiatrists is not recommending specific outcome measures to be used for revalidation at this stage.
The College does recommend that psychiatrists should be considering with colleagues the use of appropriate outcome measures as a way of working with patients to determine the effectiveness of interventions. The College has produced guidance on outcome measures to be considered.
4. EDUCATION
Continuing Professional Development / Description of CPD undertaken including:
  • its relevance to individual professional practice,
  • its relevance to the current personal development plan,
  • reflection and confirmation of good practice or new learning where appropriate.
CPD should cover all areas of professional practice and will be:
  • Clinical – including any specialty- or sub-specialty specific requirements
  • Non-clinical – including employer mandatory training and training for educational supervision required by the GMC, training for management or academic training.
/ The achievement of at least 50 credits in each year of the revalidation cycle and at least 250 credits over a full five year revalidation cycle / The Royal College of Psychiatrists recommends that psychiatrists are in good standing with the College for Continuing Professional Development in each of the 5 years (or have done equivalent CPD). The College’s policy may be found at
5. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION THAT MAY BE HELPFUL WHERE THE OPPORTUNITY EXISTS TO PROVIDE IT
Quality of teaching / Documented feed back of your skills as a teacher/trainer / Psychiatrists should provide supporting information that teaching activities meet standards set in Good Medical and Good Psychiatric Practice.
Quality of research / Peer reviewed publications, if any, may be included / Psychiatrists should provide supporting information that research activities meet standards set in Good Medical and Good Psychiatric Practice.
Other forms of Peer Review / Formal Peer Review visits or Service Accreditation, where these are carried out / The Royal College of Psychiatrists has an accreditation service which services may wish to use.
Clinical Governance and risk management / Documentation of action taken in relation to clinical risk, colleagues in difficulty, trainees in difficulty