3. Local regulatory alignment (liaison)

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Joint working protocol with the General Medical Council (GMC)

1. Routine data sharing
2. Emerging and urgent concerns
3. Local regulatory alignment
4. Risk and quality summits

5. Strategic collaboration
Annex 2: Information sharing with the GMC
Annex 3: Information sharing with CQC
Annex 4: Potential illegal practice

Local liaison is an opportunity for the GMC and the CQC to align activity and share information at the local level.

Local liaison can be held as a meeting between just the GMC and the CQC or as part of a wider meeting with other stakeholders, for example through local or regional quality fora.

Liaison could also include co-ordinating ongoing activity to help reduce regulatory burdens, attending joint meetings and/or regular or ad hoc conversations as required.

Local relationships are integral to successful partnership working between both organisations and this document does not set out to enforce strict rules of engagement – your working relationship with your counterpart needs to work best for you.

4. Risk and quality summit