Deanery Reports

Specialty Quality Management Groups (SQMGs) are accountable to overarching Deanery Quality Management Group (DQMG) and to the NHS Education for Scotland (NES) Medical Directorate Apex Group (MDAG).

Quality Report to the General Medical Council (GMC)

The GMC have an online reporting system to allow more regular sharing of information and updates. Updates can now be provided following quality management activity such as deanery visits or receipt of reports from Directors of Medical Education and Training Programme Directors.

The Lead Dean Directors of the sQMGs are accountable to DQMG & to MDAG for updating and responding to entries in GMC’s online reporting system that relate to concerns about training in posts and programmes in their specialties. The online reporting system is the main tool for reporting to the GMC on progress of actions taken about concerns around training. The entries are managed by the Associate Postgraduate Deans for Quality and Quality Improvement Managers and updated throughout the year.

GMC Self-Assessment Questionnaire

We are required to submit an annual self-assessment questionnaire (SAQ) to the GMC. The purpose of this questionnaire is to provide information about the policies and processes we have in place regarding postgraduate medical training organisation. The aim is to ensure the GMC we are meeting the standards in Promoting excellence: standards for medical education and training.

Following submission of the SAQ a feedback meeting is then organised and attended by NES quality team members and members of the GMC quality assurance team. This meeting gives everyone the opportunity to expand upon the points raised in their SAQ and to discuss potential quality activities for the rest of the annual cycle.

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