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LONDON, July 15 (UPI) -- Doctors in Britain would have to renew their licenses every five years under proposals inspired by the case of a doctor who killed about 250 patients.
The General Medical Council might also lose some of its authority.
Dr. Harold Shipman was admired and trusted by his patients in the Manchester area. But authorities now believe that he killed as many as 260 of them, mostly elderly women. Shipman hanged himself in 2004 in the prison where he was serving multiple life sentences.
"At present, a senior doctor can go through a 30-year career without undergoing a single assessment of their fitness to practice," said Sir Liam Donaldson, the government's chief medical officer, "whereas an airline pilot would face over 100 checks over a similar timescale."
A report, Good Doctors, that came out of investigations into the Shipman case criticized Britain's procedures for monitoring doctors and recommended the first major overhaul of medical licensing in three decades.
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