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Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Health – in the House of Commons at 2:30 pm on 10 February 2009.

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Photo of Ann Keen Ann Keen Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Health Services), Department of Health 2:30, 10 February 2009

I thank my hon. Friend for that. The GMC is currently consulting on the draft of a third edition of "Tomorrow's doctors", which, as was noted on 22 January by the Health Committee, of which my hon. Friend is a hard-working member, enshrines the competences drawn up by the safe prescribing working group. Those competences are included in the draft. The consultation concludes on 27 March. The GMC will then consider all the representations received, before publishing the next edition in the summer of 2009. It will be the duty of us all to ensure that all our doctors' education is safe in its practice.