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Additional information re GMC Connect
Changes to information about deferral recommendations
In the most recent RO bulletin, we told you about our plans to collect additional information about recommendations to defer doctors’ revalidation. We’re now asking you to forward this email to your technical lead for the system that you use to send recommendations to us. It would be really helpful if you could let us know their contact details so we can communicate with them directly in the future.
From 25 March 2019 we will collect additional information about recommendations to defer doctors’ revalidation. To recap, we will collect further information where the reason for the deferral is ‘insufficient information to revalidate’. To submit recommendations designated bodies (‘DBs’) must select the categories that best describe the reasons for the recommendation, from the following pre-populated list:
Appraisal activity
Colleague feedback
Compliments and Complaints
CPD
Interruption to practice
Patient feedback
QIA
Significant events
The changes will automatically come into effect for recommendations submitted through GMC Connect. However our records show that your organisation has submitted revalidation recommendations via our API. If you wish to continue submitting recommendations via our API system you will need to test and implement the necessary changes.
Our new API version will be available from 25 March 2019. We understand that you will need time to make the necessary system changes. We therefore ask that have adopted our new API version by April 2020. This provides you with an additional 13 months to provide this information when compared to GMC Connect users.
We plan to retire the v1 API from April 2020, at which point submissions made via v1 will be rejected. We have attached our updated API user guide.
We are writing to ROs separately to confirm the changes. Here we will confirm that API user organisations have been given notice of the changes and deadlines.
We strongly encourage you to contact us at the earliest opportunity if you think there may be challenges in meeting this deadline. It is important that we are able to collect this information from all DBs, so that our approach to recommendations is fair and transparent.
We are retiring the legacy TryRecommendation API method
Collecting information about revalidation deferrals is important to us, which is why we are planning to retire the previous API method TryRecommendation method in April. From this time, designated bodies who have not adopted the new method (TryRecommendationV2) will be required to submit their recommendations “manually” through our GMC Connect portal.
What do you need to do?
If you have any concerns about adopting TryRecommendationV2 by April 2020, please reply to this email to let us know. We want to encourage the usage of our Revalidation API, so we’d like to know more about how changing our systems impacts users.
If you are planning to move to TryRecommendationV2, we’ll be happy to support you while testing the new method on our test environment.
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