Ongoing responsibilities of national regulatory Boards within a market-based system | Terminated powers of national regulatory Boards within a market-based system |
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Recognition of the validity of training or experience represented by degrees or qualifications conferred locally or elsewhere | Prevention of well-qualified candidates accepting job offers agreeable to informed local medical employers and insurers |
Maintaining a national register of qualified practitioners, who pay a nominal initial fee (only) for that service | Charging practitioners high annual fees solely in return for official permission to continue practising |
Investigation of complaints involving professional misconduct, with the power to suspend or disqualify a practitioner from registered status if guilt is proven beyond reasonable doubt | Blocking registration for well-qualified practitioners with no track record of proven misconduct, for no reason other than that a filed complaint has not yet been evaluated by another Board |
Developing mechanisms to ensure that practitioners do not over-service the patient community to an extent that is cost-ineffective, e.g. by making unfounded claims or otherwise creating excess demand | Making continued professional practice contingent upon costly and time-consuming compliance with prescribed educational activities of assumed but unproven relation to medical competence or public safety |
Building transparent bridges with international regulatory partners by developing accessible online databases of complaints and disciplinary procedural outcomes | Invoking notions of privacy and confidentiality, in any setting, as a means of maintaining opacity and non-accountability, whether to the profession itself or to the public |