Designated Body Connection – GMC Revalidation Pathway for Doctors

Dr Omar Ghazanfar is a senior appraiser with more than 1000 appraisals conducted to date. He started conducting appraisals within the NHS in 2011 and was appointed as the Revalidation Fellow at the Oxford Deanery in 2012 where he completed his revalidation fellowship and authored the Oxford Revalidation policy. He was subsequently appointed as SAS appraisal lead at the Wexham Park Hospital where he continued to lead the quality assurance of the appraisal process. Later on, he was appointed as the Revalidation Advisor for NHS England London where he was responsible for liaising and quality assuring the appraisals for IMG and SAS doctors across all the NHS trusts in London. He has also completed the NHS England accredited Responsible Officer Training Course and in addition regularly quality assures other appraisers as part of their annual appraiser maintenance requirements .Dr Ghazanfar is also part of several lead appraiser and ROAG groups.

Dr Ewa Wolska has over 20 years of experience in various aspects of Forensic Medicine. After she graduated in 2000, she had worked for 10 years at the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Poland as a Forensic Pathologist and academic teacher. Ewa has special interest in interpretation of injuries.

Ewa has been a Forensic Physician and Sexual Offence Examiner in the UK for the past 12 years. Currently, she holds a position of an Associate Medical Director and Paediatric Sexual Offence Examiner for Mountain Healthcare Ltd. Ewa is also a Senior Medical Appraiser and a Lead Appraiser for Mountain Healthcare Ltd. and British Pregnancy Advisory Service.

Rehan is a highly experienced, trained medical appraiser and Responsible Officer. He has completed over 2000 appraisals for various NHS Trusts, locum agencies, private clinics, overseas doctors and has been actively involved with healthcare licensing, regulation and clinical governance for doctors. Rehan has helped towards the set up & quality assurance of the appraisal and revalidation systems for several outsource organisations.

Rehan is an active member of the London RO network group meetings, the locum RO network group and the GMC reference group for responsible officers. He remains active in research and his last work was on the utility of Skype-based appraisals for doctors practising in the United Kingdom presented at the NHSE locum RO network meeting.