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Revalidation (UI + Service)

Sumary

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Summary

A doctor's licence to practice with the GMC must be renewed every 5 years, this includes trainee doctors with HEE who receive their full licence after their first (Foundation) year of training. This renewal is known as Revalidation and is achieved by HEE submitting a recommendation to the GMC for those trainees who are nearing renewal (under notice). The GMC treats HEE as 13 discrete entities or Designated Bodies, each with a single Responsible Officer (RO), the individual responsible for the trainee's recommendation. In practice the RO delegates all or most of these to HEE Admins and sometimes reviews before submission.

Revalidation is made up of an Angular 1.x UI app and a springboot application presenting a RESTful API that provides the endpoints to support the Revalidation UI. Combined they enable HEE to review the data on Trainee Doctors due to be Revalidated, make recommendations regarding a Revalidation and submit these a recommendation, review these and then submit to the GMC.

What it does

• Revalidation allows HEE Admins to review lists of HEE's trainee doctors, constrained to only trainees within the Designated Body the Admin has access to
• The lists of Trainees are presented as tabs - each one shows trainees within one (or more) status within the Revalidation workflow, these are: All Doctors | Under Notice | Review | Ready to Submit | Submitted
• The data to populate these lists in the UI is retrieved from the Revalidation service - which holds it either in read only cache in the ES indexes, or the persistent data within the service's MySQL database
• Selecting a Trainee takes the admin through to a series of screens displaying further trainee detail held by HEE
• The Revalidation service provides this data from its Elastic Search cache (updated nightly), it includes programmes/revalidation history/assessments/placements/contact details
• Once the Admin has reviewed a trainee's data they can make a recommendation to the GMC (whether the Trainee should have their licence to practice extended for another 5 years)
• The recommendation is a simple form which gathers the required fields and saves this as a 'revalidation episode' to the Revalidation service (stored in the MySQL database)
• The recommendation can be placed in a review status or directly submitted to the GMC (by invoking the TryRecommendation method on the GMC Revalidation API - a SOAP based  API provided by the GMC.)
• The UI aggregates the submission of multiple recommendations into one action in the UI, the service makes multiple called to TryRecommendation - users particularly like this time saving aspect compared to their alternative processes.