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Posted AT 12:51 PM EST on 23/07/08

Is the doctor up to the job?

Reuters

LONDON — In the biggest change to Britain's medical regulation in 150 years, the country's 150,000 doctors will have to show once every five years that they are still fit to practise. Doctors falling below standard risk being struck off the medical register unless they improve, plans published by England's Chief Medical Officer Liam Donaldson on Wednesday indicate.

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