Consists of material relating to Sir Liam's role as Chief Medical Officer for England within the Department of Health.

File consists of;

Index to transcripts;

Transcript to 1st meeting held on 4 February 2005, in which Sir Liam talked about the context and aims of the advisory group and chaired open discussions on medical regulation and issues raised by Dame Janet Smith's Shipman Reports;

Transcript to 2nd meeting held on 15 March 2005, in which Sir Liam introduced the call for ideas document on medical regulation and gave a presentation summarising themes from the 1st meeting, introducing questions that need addressing through this advisory process, including a need for research studies, and discussing the points covered with the group;

Transcript to 3rd meeting held on 11 April 2005; in which representatives from the National Clinical Assessment Service gave a presentation and held open discussions on current and proposed systems for identifying, assessing and revalidating underperforming doctors;

And transcript to 4th meeting held on 2 June 2005, in which representatives from the General Medical Council (GMC) gave a presentation and held open discussions on the GMC's current structure, its future and its role in medical regulation of doctors.

File consists of;

Index to transcripts;

Transcript to 5th meeting held on 30 June 2005, in which representatives from the General Medical Council (GMC) gave a presentation and held open discussions on revalidation of doctors and Sir Liam presented early findings from the call for ideas document;

Transcript to 6th meeting held on 22 September 2005, in which representatives from a group formed by the Royal College of Physicians named 'Medical Professionalism - Defining and Maintaining Professional Values in Medicine' gave a presentation and held open discussions on how the initiative had progressed, MORI market researchers fed back on a survey commissioned at the 2nd meeting on the public and doctors' attitudes to regulation and revalidation, and discussion of draft report by Professor Judith Alsop, University of Lincoln, and Dr Kathryn Jones, De Montfort University, entitled 'Quality Assurance in Medical Regulation in an International Context';

Transcript to 7th meeting held on 7 November 2005; in which a presentation with discussion was given from a parallel review on regulation in the non-medical health care profession, reports back with discussions from the Sub-Group Meetings into the role of the GMC, A Single Complaints Portal and the Haslam/Kerr Inquiry, and a discussion of a public dispute between a medical practioner and the General Medical Council regarding their negative treatment of him in an unfounded investigation;

Transcript to 8th meeting held on 7 December 2005, in which representatives from the General Medical Council (GMC) gave a presentation and held open discussions on a review of the effectiveness of the GMC's recent reforms, a discussion on the nature of legislation governing medical regulation and a discussion of a report commissioned on competency assurance in other high-risk industries;

And transcript to 9th meeting held on 20 December 2005, in which the group reflected on what they felt had come out of the meetings and research, presented any specific ideas to aid Sir Liam in writing the final report and discussed the MORI additional commissioned survey of hospital doctors' attitudes to regulation and revalidation.

File consists of;

Index to transcripts;

Sub Group details and membership;

Letter to Sir Liam from Ann Abraham, Health Service Ombudsman for England, following her participation in the Advisory Sub-Group on the Single Complaints Portal on 4 August 2005, in which she includes detailed comments on Dame Janet Smith's fifth report published in 2004, which made recommendations on reforms to complaints procedures within the National Health Service (NHS);

Transcript of Sub-Group Meeting held on 4 August 2005 to look into the merits of a Single Complaints Portal;

Transcript of Sub-Group Meeting held on 17 August 2005 to discuss findings of research commissioned by Sir Liam and carried out by MORI market researchers into the public and doctors' attitudes to regulation and revalidation;

Transcript of Sub-Group Meeting held on 27 September 2005, to discuss the Haslam/Kerr Inquiry (which investigated psychiatrists Michael Haslam and William Kerr's sexual assault of many of their vulnerable patients throughout the 1970s and 1980s), and its potential ramifications for medical revalidation with Nigel Pleming QC, the Chair of that Inquiry;

Report on the Haslam/Kerr Sub-Group Meeting held on 27 September 2005;

Transcript of Sub-Group Meeting held on 7 September 2005 to discuss the role of the General Medical Council (GMC) in medical regulation and revalidation;

And summary of discussions on the GMC Sub-Group Meeting held on 7 September 2005.

Includes material related to Sir Liam's Public Health Awards, including start up, advertising, applications and judges' reports.

Consultation example for discussion of a report intended for parents and carers regarding young people and alcohol. Includes Sir Liam's draft guidance, myths and realities of underage drinking and further information and sources of advice.

Part of UK Government's Consultation on Children, Young People and Alcohol, which ran for 12 weeks seeking the views of young people, carers, parents and other interested parties and closed on 23 April 2009. Sir Liam's condensed draft guidance featured on pages 3 to 6.

Sir Liam's professional credentials and submitted career history.

Consists of black and white class photograph, including Sir Liam, of pupils at Rotherham Grammar School. Sir Liam is on the top row, 4th from the left.

Includes Sir Liam's Special Reports Making Amends: A Consultation Paper setting out Proposals for Reforming the Approach to Clinical Negligence in the NHS , and Bearing Good Witness: Proposals for Reforming the Delivery of Medical Expert Evidence in Family Law Cases .

Also includes other material specifically related to the medical profession and litigation.

Includes Sir Liam's Special Reports Supporting Doctors, Protecting Patients and Assuring the Quality of Medical Practice: Implementing Supporting Doctors, Protecting Patients . Also includes other material specifically related to clinical performance and clinical governance.